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... returning to its breeding haunts in the extreme north with the advent of spring .
The bird feeds almost entirely by the sea shore . Brown snipe keep in large wisps
, and fly in close formation like the stint . Upwards of a hundred have been killed ...
... returning to its breeding haunts in the extreme north with the advent of spring .
The bird feeds almost entirely by the sea shore . Brown snipe keep in large wisps
, and fly in close formation like the stint . Upwards of a hundred have been killed ...
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THE GREAT SNIPE The great snipe is not , I think , quite so rare a bird as is often
supposed ; for so close is its resemblance to the full snipe , and so accustomed
are snipe - shooters to bagging large specimens of the full THE FULL SNIPE ...
THE GREAT SNIPE The great snipe is not , I think , quite so rare a bird as is often
supposed ; for so close is its resemblance to the full snipe , and so accustomed
are snipe - shooters to bagging large specimens of the full THE FULL SNIPE ...
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... shot here is much larger than the Common Snipe ; bill shorter ; plumage nearly
alike , with the exception of the belly , which in the Common is white , but in the
Solitary is speckled with gray and brown . It lies close , and when flushed makes
...
... shot here is much larger than the Common Snipe ; bill shorter ; plumage nearly
alike , with the exception of the belly , which in the Common is white , but in the
Solitary is speckled with gray and brown . It lies close , and when flushed makes
...
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It is simply that the bird is dull and heavy by day and has but little instinctive fear
of man , and also pays but little heed to the sound of a gun or the whistling of shot
. The close - lying habit of the jack has gained him among our neighbours ...
It is simply that the bird is dull and heavy by day and has but little instinctive fear
of man , and also pays but little heed to the sound of a gun or the whistling of shot
. The close - lying habit of the jack has gained him among our neighbours ...
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... the consequence being that , while actually on the wing , he was held to the
earth by the bill . When , at close quarters , one comes suddenly on to a snipe
which chances to have its bill deep in the soil at the time , this always happens ...
... the consequence being that , while actually on the wing , he was held to the
earth by the bill . When , at close quarters , one comes suddenly on to a snipe
which chances to have its bill deep in the soil at the time , this always happens ...
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| Заглавие | Snipe and Woodcock Fur and feather series Fur, feather, & fin series |
| Автор | L. H. De Visme Shaw |
| Издание | с едър шрифт |
| Издател | Longmans, Green, 1903 |
| Оригиналът е от | Калифорнийският университет |
| Цифровизирана на | 23 ян. 2007 |
| Брой страници | 298 страници |
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