. The water-fowl family . airie sloughs are amongthe recollections. Possibly we took the unfairadvantage of a dog, for snipe usually lie well;this, however, in locations where they abound isoften unnecessary. We look for them on thesalt marshes, where there is tender green grass,near little springs. Here their borings betraythem. On the larger meadows usually snipe arefound in some one particular spot, and this theyregularly frequent during their visitations ; rarelyyou see one on the ground crouching with billoutstretched in perfect harmony with the sur-roundings. They should be hunted down w
. The water-fowl family . airie sloughs are amongthe recollections. Possibly we took the unfairadvantage of a dog, for snipe usually lie well;this, however, in locations where they abound isoften unnecessary. We look for them on thesalt marshes, where there is tender green grass,near little springs. Here their borings betraythem. On the larger meadows usually snipe arefound in some one particular spot, and this theyregularly frequent during their visitations ; rarelyyou see one on the ground crouching with billoutstretched in perfect harmony with the sur-roundings. They should be hunted down wind,for then the bird gives a cross shot as it teaches the gunner to wait until thesnipe has ceased its twisting and settled downto steady flight, when it is readily shot. TheWilsons snipe is nocturnal in its habits andmigrates at this time; just at dusk they becomeactive, and we often see them darting from onemarsh to another, in search of a spot to birds are not partial to cold weather, and the. Shore-bird Shooting 345 first frosts start them along. They scatter overthe South, and we find them broadcast on therice-fields of the interior and the swamps through-out the Gulf states, or close to the coast, wher-ever their happy-go-lucky flight may chance toland. Northern South America and West Indiessee them in winter, and also Mexico and CentralAmerica. The migration north begins in April,and the snipe drop into the same little nooksyear after year, staying a day or two, then push-ing on. While occasionally this species nestswithin our boundary, the breeding range isfarther north, and the large body pass into theCanadian provinces, selecting the marshes on themainland and the islands about the Gulf of , the northern coast through Labradorand the interior to Hudson Bay, and on the westto Alaska. A fresh-water marsh is the site generally chosen,and the nest is placed in a tussock of grass, likelynear a clump of trees. It is a mere depression,li
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