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PRAIRIE AND FOREST. 



river is of the princely salmon. Once extermination takes 

 place, it will be too late to do aught but repine. 



Snipe abounds throughout the prairies of Western 

 America, far outdoing all other game in their abundance. 

 The Wilson snipe, for such is its proper name, is truly a 

 splendid bird, so nearly similar to our own home beauty, 

 that the skilful naturalist is alone able to distinguish the 

 one from the other ; in size, habits, flight, and even call, 

 they are essentially alike. 



Spending the winter months in the Southern States, 

 principally in those that border the Gulf of Mexico, as 

 spring advances they follow up northward the line of de- 



WILSON SNIPE. 



marcation between frost and thaw, ultimately arriving in 

 that boundless expanse which stretches northwards from 

 the Great Lakes to the Arctic Ocean. Up in this remote 



