. The sportsman's British bird book . In Jaek-Snipe (Gallinagogallinulaj. I40 PLOVER GROUP addition to this peculiarity, the jack-snipe differs from its kin by thelack of a pale longitudinal band on the crown of the head, and thereduction of the tail-feathers, which are uniformly coloured, soft, andpointed, to twelve. It is smaller than the common snipe, measur-ing only 7^ inches in length, and weighing not more than 2^ hen is slightly duller in colour than the cock, but does notapparently exhibit that inferiority in size characteristic of the greatsnipe. In winter the under-parts displ
. The sportsman's British bird book . In Jaek-Snipe (Gallinagogallinulaj. I40 PLOVER GROUP addition to this peculiarity, the jack-snipe differs from its kin by thelack of a pale longitudinal band on the crown of the head, and thereduction of the tail-feathers, which are uniformly coloured, soft, andpointed, to twelve. It is smaller than the common snipe, measur-ing only 7^ inches in length, and weighing not more than 2^ hen is slightly duller in colour than the cock, but does notapparently exhibit that inferiority in size characteristic of the greatsnipe. In winter the under-parts display a grey tinge ; immaturebirds lack the green and jnn-ple reflections of the The jack-snipe breeds in the far north of the eastern hemisphere,mainly within the Arctic Circle, and passes the winter in temperateand .southern Europe, northern Africa, and southern Asia, where it isabundant in northern India, although scarce in Ceylon and the British Isles, where it remains from the end of September orearly in October till March or April, it is known .solely as a visitor ;in the bogs of Ireland it is decidedly less numerous than the ordinarysnipe. As a rule, it is a solitary bird, with an affection for i:)articularspots, and lies very close, rising when flushed with a peculiar flutteringflight, quite silently, and soon settling again. In India, at any rate,it affects places with thicker covert in the form of grass or reeds thanthe ordinary snipe, and prefers damp to wet situations in COMMON GULL 141 which to settle. Although all snipe la\- relatively large eggs,the relative proportion between eggs and bird is most marked in thepresent species, a
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