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considerably more than half its length, turned up like 

 an avocet's."* 



Snipes, like woodcocks, plovers, and other marsh 

 birds, are not unfrequently found dead under the 

 telegraph wires, having flown against them in their 

 nocturnal flights ; but some three or four years since a 

 snipe was knocked down by the sails of a mill at 

 Dilham, in this county, in a very remarkable manner. 

 The bird rose from a field near a mill belonging to 

 Mr. H. Ladell, of that place, in such a direction 

 that, the machinery being in rapid motion at the time, 

 it had one of its wings cut off by the sails, quite close 

 to the body, as if severed with a knife. This occur- 

 rence happened on the 9th of May, and it is just 

 possible that the bird at that time had a nest close by, 

 and was in the habit of perching on the mill sails when 

 stationary. 



SCOLOPAX GALLINULA, 

 JACK SNIPE. 



The Jack or "half" Snipe, as a migrant only, visits 

 us regularly in spring and autumn, frequenting the 

 same localities as the "whole" snipe, but in its movements 

 leading a perfectly independent existence. At times 

 when the "whole" snipes are most plentiful, scarcely any 

 jacks are to be met with; and occasionally, also, some 

 favourite marsh may be found full of jacks, and hardly 

 a " whole " snipe be seen in a day's shooting. 



In autumn they usually make their appearance 



* Mr. J. H. Gurney has since seen a similar specimen killed 

 in Sussex, but with the beak not quite so much recurved. 



