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... tail feathers , its individuality as a species would be obvious , for it is certainly not a melanism of the jack , and both the full snipe and the great snipe have tail feathers in excess of this number . To set this matter finally at ...
... tail feathers , its individuality as a species would be obvious , for it is certainly not a melanism of the jack , and both the full snipe and the great snipe have tail feathers in excess of this number . To set this matter finally at ...
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... tail coverts are white , the tip of each feather marked with a crescent - formed spot of black on the tip , and barred diagonally with the same colour ; the tail is also white , slightly tinted with rufous , and with all the feathers ...
... tail coverts are white , the tip of each feather marked with a crescent - formed spot of black on the tip , and barred diagonally with the same colour ; the tail is also white , slightly tinted with rufous , and with all the feathers ...
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... all material details to the great snipe with the exception of the belly and the tail , the other differences being so small that in all of them the great snipe may be exactly matched by specimens of the full 12 THE SNIPE.
... all material details to the great snipe with the exception of the belly and the tail , the other differences being so small that in all of them the great snipe may be exactly matched by specimens of the full 12 THE SNIPE.
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... tail and the belly , guided by which one may infallibly and at once say whether a certain bird is a great snipe or a full snipe , are : that whereas the belly of the full snipe is pure white that of the great snipe is more or less ...
... tail and the belly , guided by which one may infallibly and at once say whether a certain bird is a great snipe or a full snipe , are : that whereas the belly of the full snipe is pure white that of the great snipe is more or less ...
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... downwards and pressed against the breast , poses itself in the form of the letter V , the raised fan - like tail partly shielding the back from the wind . CHAPTER II PECULIARITIES OF THE SNIPE ' SMALL wonder is 30 THE SNIPE.
... downwards and pressed against the breast , poses itself in the form of the letter V , the raised fan - like tail partly shielding the back from the wind . CHAPTER II PECULIARITIES OF THE SNIPE ' SMALL wonder is 30 THE SNIPE.
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