334 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
considerably more than half its length, turned up like 
an avocet’s.”’* 
Snipes, like woodecocks, plovers, and other marsh 
birds, are not unfrequently found dead under the 
telegraph wires, having flown against them in their 
nocturnal flights; but some three or four years since a 
snipe was knocked down by the sails of a mill at 
Dilham, in this county, in a very remarkable manner. 
The bird rose from a field near a mill belonging to 
Mr. H. Ladell, of that place, in such a direction 
that, the machinery being in rapid motion at the time, 
it had one of its wings cut off by the sails, quite close ~ 
to the body, as if severed with a knife. This occur- 
rence happened on the 9th of May, and it is just 
possible that the bird at that time had a nest close by, 
and was in the habit of perching on the mill sails when 
stationary. 
SCOLOPAX GALLINULA, Linnezus. 
JACK SNIPE. 
The Jack or “half” Snipe, as a migrant only, visits 
us regularly in spring and autumn, frequenting the 
same localities as the “whole” snipe, but in its movements 
leading a perfectly independent existence. At times 
when the “whole” snipes are most plentiful, scarcely any 
jacks are to be met with; and occasionally, also, some 
favourite marsh may be found full of jacks, and hardly 
a “ whole” snipe be seen in a day’s shooting. 
In autumn they usually make their appearance 
* Mr. J. H. Gurney has since seen a similar specimen killed 
in Sussex, but with the beak not quite so much recurved. 
