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remarks about 'cock are to a great extent applicable. The 

 same feeding-grounds are chosen, but whereas the wood- 

 cock prefers a dry bed during the day, the snipe still 

 remains in the marshes, and rests on some tuft of rushes 

 rising above the surface of the water. It is almost needless 

 to state that snipe should, where possible, be walked up 

 down-wind, except during frost, when the opposite 

 manoeuvre will be found most successful. Snipe, like 

 woodcock, are perfectly equipped by nature for their mode 

 of life, and can best be studied in their natural surround- 

 ings far from Kensington or other abodes of stuffed 

 specimens. 



