. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . before and during the breeding season. GENUS GallinagO delicata (Ord). Wilson Snipe : Jack long and slender, mandibles grooved, roughened, and widenedtoward end ; tip of upper overreaching thelower mandible ; nostril small and at edgeuf feathers. Crown buff, with side stripes of black;back mainly black with stripes falling intotwo middle lines of buff and two outer linesof whitish ; neck and breast spotted andstreaked with buff, brown
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande Valley . before and during the breeding season. GENUS GallinagO delicata (Ord). Wilson Snipe : Jack long and slender, mandibles grooved, roughened, and widenedtoward end ; tip of upper overreaching thelower mandible ; nostril small and at edgeuf feathers. Crown buff, with side stripes of black;back mainly black with stripes falling intotwo middle lines of buff and two outer linesof whitish ; neck and breast spotted andstreaked with buff, brown, and dusky ; sidesbarred with black and white; belly : , wing , bill f , tarsus Distribution. — North America, and southin winter to northern South America, breed-Fig. 102. ing from Colorado and Utah to north of theArctic — A grass-lined cavity in marshy ground. Eggs : 3 or 4, grayisholive, spotted and streaked with bi-own and black. The plump jack snipe with the striped back is a prober ratherthan a wader, as his short legs and long bill attest. He pokes about. SNIPES, SANDPIPERS, ETC. 89 in the muddy bottoms, under grass, flags, and tules, fishing up hisfood from the soft mud, the sensitive tip of his long bill enablinghim to select the choicest worms and other dainty morsels. He is a common bird wherever there are marshes to his taste, andmost country folk are familiar with his song. On warm summerevenings or cloudy days before a storm he mounts high in air andwith rapidly vibrating wings produces a prolonged whirr that in-creases to a diminutive roar, and repeats it every minute or two forsometimes half an hour. At other times he flies low over the grass,uttering a guttural chuck-chuck-chuck-chuck-chuck, and then dropsout of sight. Hisc(mimou, all-the-year-round note is a nasal squank,uttered as he springs from the ground at your feet and mtikes oft inquick zigzags. The only excuse for considering so smal
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