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Isi the woodce;c% tfv-# svfisiiji# w»^*i less expass^Ied than in the Jaek ’ 
and common sol|w-s^, coniposed of font fissed rings. 
The inosi' •^jrlnx was the degenerate condition ot 
the Intrinsic < FJ,)i ■which appeared to terminate on the 
hlndar iFe?; A® st matter of fact, however, a nnmber %4' 
tme to ran. U) the normal point of inseitiop^ 
m ili^: ''4 ' if;v . ^ iS?e«m,i£:hiai scnil »rlBg. 
Dr P„ I'i. «i''‘r.^i?:., prer?-(nt:- at the xneetfrig, made the foUowlwg 
‘I 'I'm s,?f Air Fycroft have added another 
tQ tfesv iim: ol sp«cj^hxed sttvcm^r'e-.a io" ••'>■ h%d-» s^hm Smlopacints are remark- 
aMe. To my mmdf the i^ri fte the Jack snipe is provided-- 
with mi Intercalaiy m- M.r J/'ycraft has already pointed, 
not, explains a great dmt 
f?nrieg the course of -v .■ru.ci.ht'-r 'of experiments which I piiblished' in 
1907, 'J experh.neote7l ?3»©th the primary wing-feathers a-nd 'Ihii. 
rectriees of the jack snipe, byic was not able to produce any characterisif^:'J 
sound' wdth'either of titem-. Woiley has- stated, and the accuracy of Ms state v^l 
ments are proverbial, that in Lapland this snipe while soaring, at. a groi'styj|J 
height over Its breeding -groimds, makes a sound comparable to that <v^'.y 
a horse gaBopisig over -a hard road. We have now, in -view of Mr Fycrafr'«-.’\'|| 
•interesting discvwery, some reason to believe that the origin of this sou.o4; 
Is vocai'A'' 
BhiriBtahft h iM; BriHsk In this country the .jack snipe ma’kea- ii-^ 
appearance- .beiwe^n ■n-m rrvbtdle of September and the 'middle of Octobe-r. 
and. depane toward* the \ir-4 of March or the beginning of April ; to the | 
ufjiiiia, it 'm IC'Calities as early as the end of Augwsf;|:| 
wd tlO April ; U- . lie noted that stragglers d«i« 
i this eoaji^ry vj the general migratkii^l 
aM that ^jown to remain throngls^J 
out sdth&isigh they h.tv# '|>^-oved to breed In 
part Eis^gdom, D-iiring, -Xia-y of -the year it iifi 
••generally di.strf.b-ntt?-{|- - over the I'km- costimon snipe arid^| 
Hke that bird, shows o- mark^fi prefert-.iiii^'«^ fesf cemia localities; bi»i-' 
is generally much less .mmmmmt nu<l though on occasions many ncmtif 
Jades than full snipe may be kiliW in a day, such 'instances are quit# 
exceptional, a-nd as a rule tlic . otitaumber rhe- former, by abo?^',,^ 
twenty !o one, 
fo 0 d ... — -In the matter of |mc'k »aipe is partly u veget'ari'fc;^^ 
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