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woodcock is so much esteemed on the table that it 

 commands a price of $1 to $1.50 a couple in our 

 markets. I heard the whistling noise made by the 

 woodcock with its wings at night, April 28, 1893, 

 along the banks of the North River at St. Andrews, 



P.Q. 



Genus Gallinago. Leach. 



66. Wilson's Snipe. (Snipe.) G. delicata. (Ord.) 

 " Transient Visitant," common. More plentiful 

 in the autumn, when they afford capital sport, and 

 are much appreciated by sportsmen. I saw several 

 April 30, 1882, in a small swampy bush near Bou- 

 gie's corner, on the Back River road, and flushed 

 one May 22, 1881, on the low islands below St. 

 Vincent de Paul. I shot several October 31, 1889, 

 in the marsh on the river side near the mouth of 

 the creek atLaprairie, and saw one and heard others 

 April 19, 1890, up the same creek. I think it likely 

 that a few breed along Belle Riviere, county of Two 

 Mountains, about 33 miles northwest of Montreal, 

 as Mr. Oswald, whose farm is on that river, has ob- 

 served snipe there during the breeding season. If 

 the season happens to be a mild one, the snipe are 

 found here till late in the month of November, when 

 they appear to be larger than those shot earlier in 

 the autumn, arid the sportsman bags them with 

 greater pleasure. This delicious bird is sold in our 

 markets at $2.75 to $3 per dozen, or 60 cents a 

 couple. 



