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equal measure. Note that, like the plovers, all British- 

 bred snipe, which are those which would have suffered 

 from long-eared owls, left the country for southern lati- 

 tudes in October, and had the owls killed every one of 

 them before they started on their journey, that could not 

 have affected the numbers in the winter flight. 



