154 sxnacs. saxnrtrnns. IC'l‘t‘. 
     
    
   
   
    
     place from which he arose. and the penal is at once resumed as a pre- 
     
     liminary to another round in the sky. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The l‘:l'l:tll‘l-2.\.\' \Vooiu-ot'lt tied“. .\'m/o/m,r rusfit-m’ul hears a general rc— 
     
     semhlanee to our Woodcock, but is much larger: the under parts are barred 
     
     with black, the wings are, harrcd with rnt'ous. and the outer primaries are not 
     
     emarginate. It is of aeeidental oeeurrenee in eastern North America. 
     
    
   
   
    
     230. Gamnago delicata. t (Irv/t. \\'ti.sox‘s Swen; Exotisn Sxtri-z. 
     
     .Atrl.——1'pper parts hlaek. barred. lmrdered. and mottled with tlitl'erent shades 
     
     of et'eaiii—l)tttl'; wings t'ust-ous; outer edge ot‘ outer primary and tips ot'greater 
     
     eoverts white; throat white; neck and ln't-ast oehraeet)us-huti’. indistinetly 
     
     streaked with blackish; helly white. sides barred with ltlzlt‘lx’; under tail— 
     
     covt-rts hutl'y. harred with black ; outer tail-leathers barred with black and 
     
     white, inner ones lulaek. barred with rutous at their ends and tipped with 
     
     whitish. L.. 11'25; \V.. 5'00: Tar..1'2”: 13.. 2‘50. 
     
    

    
     [fang/a—North America. hret-ding from southern Minnesota. northern Illiv 
     
     nois. nortlnvestern Pennsylvania. and t'otmwtivnt northward to iludson Bay 
     
     and Labrador. and wintering from southern Illinois and South ('arolina to 
     
     northern South America. 
     
    

    
     Washington. common T. \'.. Melt. to May 5: tall; oeeasional in winter. 
     
     Long Island. common T. \'.. Meh. and .\pl.: Aug. to ()et. Sing Sing. tol— 
     
     eralily eonnnon T. V., )1eli.20 to May e‘; (let. t) to Nov. 20. Cambridge, com— 
     
     mon T. \'., .\pl. 5 to May .3; Sept. and (let. 
     
    

    
     [Jr/(m. three to four. olive. elay-eolor. or brownish zisliy. heavily marked 
     
     with chocolate. principally at the larger end. 1130 x 1‘17. 
     
    

    
     \Vilson’s Snipe frequents fresh-water meadows and swamps, and 
     
     in spring is often found in low—lyingr swales in meadows or mowing 
     
     fields. but. exceptingr in very dry seasons. it seldom alights on salt 
     
     marshes. At; times. especially in winter or early spring. when the 
     
     meadows are covered with snow or ice. it resorts to springy runs 
     
     wooded with alders. hirches. and maples. hnt as a rule it prefers open 
     
     places. Two things are essential to its rmtnirements—gronnd so 
     
     thoroughly water—soaked as to afford slight resistance to its long and 
     
     highly sensitive hill when prohing. and such concealment as tussoeks, 
     
     ltilloeks, or loner grass afford. for. unlike the Sandpipers. the Snipe, 
     
     rarely ventures out on hare mud flats. save under cover of darkness. 
     
     Although less strictly nocturnal than the \Voodeoek, it feeds and ini- 
     
     grates ehietly l>_v night or in “ thick " weather. lts migratory move- 
     
     ments are notoriously erratic. and meadows which one day are alive 
     
     with birds may be. quite, deserted the next. or the reverse. 
     
    

    
     Dear to our sportsmen is Wilson‘s Snipe. partly because of the ex— 
     
     cellence of its tlesh. hut chiefly from the fact that it furnishes a mark 
     
     which taxes their skill to the utmost. and which no mere novice need 
     
     hope to hit. unless by accident 2 for the bird‘s flight is swift and tortu- 
     
     ous. and it springs from the grass as if thrown by a catapult. uttering