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some more congenial soil beyond the radius 

 of the foreign sportsman. 



Snipes should always be approached 

 down wind if possible. The bird, when not 

 feeding, sits with its back to the wind, 

 shoulders up and head depressed, and as the 

 wind is all necessary for it to rise alertly 

 and get underweigh it is obvious that the 

 bird must then rise more or less in the face 

 of the shooter and so afford a reasonably 

 close shot. 



But the great migration from the Russian 

 Tundras in the north to the extremities of 

 the great peninsulas in the south, Malacca, 

 Burmah, India and Africa, goes on as it has 

 done in time past and will go probably for 

 all time to come : goes on in the same 

 grand, irresistible, mysterious manner in 

 spite of any changed conditions upon 

 earth's surface effected by the hand of man. 



"The birds of passage transmigrating come 

 Unnumbered colonies of foreign wing 

 At Nature's summons " 



The common woodcock (Scolopax rusti- 

 cula) is a favorite but fitful visitant, uncer- 

 tain as to the time of its arrival as in the 

 numbers in which it visits. As a rule they 



