. Recreations of a naturalist . Natural history. 300 RECREATIONS OF A NATURALIST Islands, the remainder being natives of Siberia, China, India, Ceylon, the Malay Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Madagascar, North and South America. The so-called Common or Full Snipe (Fig. i), so much sought for by English sportsmen, has a wide geographical range. It is found throughout Europe. TAIL FEATHERS OP THE COMMON SNIPE. (including Iceland and the Faroes) and Northern Asia up to about lat. 70°, and migrates southward in winter to North Africa, India, and the Malay countries. In India, China,
. Recreations of a naturalist . Natural history. 300 RECREATIONS OF A NATURALIST Islands, the remainder being natives of Siberia, China, India, Ceylon, the Malay Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Madagascar, North and South America. The so-called Common or Full Snipe (Fig. i), so much sought for by English sportsmen, has a wide geographical range. It is found throughout Europe. TAIL FEATHERS OP THE COMMON SNIPE. (including Iceland and the Faroes) and Northern Asia up to about lat. 70°, and migrates southward in winter to North Africa, India, and the Malay countries. In India, China, and the Malay Archi- pelago its place is more or less usurped by two species of so-called Pintail Snipe (Gallinago stenura and G. megala), characterised by possessing respectively twenty-six and twenty tail feathers (instead of fourteen), and having the outside ones. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harting, James Edmund, 1841-1928. London : T. Fisher Unwin
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