SYNOPSIS. 57 



SYNOPSIS. 



Then, in early spring when snipe first arrive, look 

 through woodcock coverts, and even after the season has 

 well advanced if cold and raw winds prevail ; but when 

 the weather has become warmer, look to low grassy plots 

 and shallow swales. In the autumn the birds lie better 

 to the dog, are less uncertain in their movements, and are 

 larger and better than in the spring, you should work 

 over corn fields where there is water, potato-patches, 

 stubble and fall wheat fields, and go over wet meadows 

 and through shallow swales where snipe are likely to 

 feed. 



