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SHOOTING 



CHAPTER I 



SNIPE. 



Snipe belong, natural - historically speaking, 

 to the order of GrallcB (stilt-legged birds), 

 the family of ScolopacidcB (sharpened like a 

 stake), and the sub-family of Galliiiago (hen- 

 like). They belong, further, to that branch 

 of the CarinatcB (birds with pointed breast-^ 



