WILD SPORTS OF THE HIGHLANDS 



of the country. Particular ditches and streams near my 

 house always afford me two or three snipes; and as fast as 

 I kill these, others appear. 



Occasionally flights of jack-snipes come here; generally 

 about the end or middle of October; and last year I find, 

 on referring to my gam.e-book.that on the 19th of October 

 I killed eight brace of jack-snipes in an hour or two, find- 

 ingthem all inasmallrushypoolandin the adjoiningditch. 

 Usually, however, I only find three or four during a day's 

 shooting; but in this manner I kill a great many in the 

 course of the season, as there appears to be a constant suc- 

 cession of these birds from October to March, when they 

 leave us. The jack-snipe never remains to breed here. 



I can scarcely call the solitary snipe a bird of this coun- 

 try; never having seen but one in Scotland, and that was 

 in Sutherland. 





