4 JACK SNIPE. 
A well-kno\yn sporting writer * stated some years back that, for edible purposes, the Jack was far 
superior to the “whole” Snipe. For my own part, I consider the small bird decidedly inferior in this 
respect to his larger relative. While shooting in Norfolk in 1879, I kept the weights of about fifty or sixty 
couples of Jacks killed during the season. The birds varied from 1| to 3^ oz. ; the majority ranged 
from 2^ to 3 oz., the lighter birds being for the most part the first arrivals in the autumn. 
* ‘ Hawker on Shooting,’ eleventh edition, p. 263. 
