. Birds & nature magazine. Birds; Natural history; Natural history. J0u4 BIRDS AND ALL NATURE. Illustrated by COLOR PtiOTOGRRPfiY. Vol. IV. JULY, 1898. No. I. WILSON^S SNIPE. ^ ! Pubiic LiDrarv. i. ILSON'S SNIPE, other- wise known as the English Snipe, Jacksnipe, and Guttersnipe, and which is one of our best known game birds, has a very extended range; indeed, covering the whole of North America, and migrating south in the winter to the West Indies and northern South America. Its long, compressed, flattened, and slightly expanded bill gives it an odd appearance, and renders it easily recog
. Birds & nature magazine. Birds; Natural history; Natural history. J0u4 BIRDS AND ALL NATURE. Illustrated by COLOR PtiOTOGRRPfiY. Vol. IV. JULY, 1898. No. I. WILSON^S SNIPE. ^ ! Pubiic LiDrarv. i. ILSON'S SNIPE, other- wise known as the English Snipe, Jacksnipe, and Guttersnipe, and which is one of our best known game birds, has a very extended range; indeed, covering the whole of North America, and migrating south in the winter to the West Indies and northern South America. Its long, compressed, flattened, and slightly expanded bill gives it an odd appearance, and renders it easily recognizable. From March till September the peculiar and cheer- ful " cheep " of the Snipe may be heard in the larger city parks where there are small lakes and open moist grounds, and where it can feed and probe with its long, soft, sensitive, pointed bill in the thin mud and soft earth for worms, larvae, and the tender roots of plants. In some localities in the Southern states, during the winter months, thousands of Snipe are killed on the marshes where they collect on some especially good feeding ground. We have rarely seen more than two together, as they are not social, mov- ing about either alone or in pairs. Its movements on the ground are graceful and easy, and, while feeding, the tail is carried partly erect, the head down- ward, the bill barely clearing the ground. We recently watched one through an opera glass, but the fre- quency of its changes from point to point and the rapidity of its flight dis- couraged lonof observation. The flight is swift, and, at the start, in a zigzag manner. Sportsmen say it is a most diflicult bird to shoot, requiring a quick eye and a snap shot to bag four out of five. Col. Goss said that he always had the best success when the birds were suddenly flushed, in shooting the instant its startled 'â ^scaipe''^ reached his ear, " as it is invariably heard the moment the bird is fairly in the ; It is entertaining to watch t
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