OF THE BIRDS MENTIONED 205 
10, JACK SNIPE 
(Pages 53-60) 
Limnocryptes gallinula. (Gr., limne, a pool of stag- 
nant water, and cryptos, hidden; Lat., gallinula, a 
little hen; Welsh, gzack,asnipe.) See 6 (Synopsis), Full 
Snipe. If you wish to see jack or full snipe, you must 
hunt for them in marshy or boggy ground in favourite 
spots, and ‘ put them up ’—a good dog will find them— 
but you can also ‘ walk them up,’ which is, however, 
laborious. They are rarely seen flying about during 
the day, except perhaps a few full snipe together during 
a hard frost, when they do not seem to know where to 
go, as all the ground is frozen and they cannot feed. 
If you wait at dusk or just after dark in a favourite 
feeding ground you will fear the full snipe ‘ kchee- 
ing’ as they fly in to feed from the surrounding fields 
where they may have spent the day. If not too dark 
you may see both kinds. The jack is a small kind of 
snipe (hence probably the name Jack), resembling the 
Full in shape, plumage and habits, but is a different 
bird, and is not the female of the Full. It differs from it 
in size, quite one-third smaller (length about 8 in., beak 
14 in.) ; it has more richly coloured plumage, but is much 
like it; it has the same bright eye, set well back in the 
head ; its flight is even more zigzag (it is considered a 
feat to shoot one), but it will pztch again quite close by 
