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1394. At length from some long grass near the river bank I put 
Sept. 22. up over twenty birds in the course of ten or fifteen minutes. 
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Twelve of them rose A at once and went off in a compact flock 
like Sandpipers, mounting high into the air, circling, and 
finally pitching down and alighting not far from the spot, 
where they started. They were very wild at first but after I 
hadfired a few shots at them and scattered them,they lay 
better. Still I was forced to content myself with long shots 
most of the time, and consequently missed a number of times. 
When I returned to the boat and counted my birds I found that 
I had bagged eleven. 
■ I do not remember to have ever before seen Wilson*s Snipe 
behave in the manner just described, when the shy was so abso« 
lutely clear and the sun so hot. Moreover, I saw a good many 
birds on the ground standing erect watching me or running with 
skulking, crouching gait over spaces of bare mud,and this is 
unusual save in cloudy weather. , , ; ✓ r 
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On the flats opposite Leanard's Pond I started by actual 
count thirty two different birds. With a single exception 
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every one of them flew out of sight, the majority of them 
going up the Megalloway valley, nearly all of then rose very 
wild-, so that I had only a few really good shots. I missed 
at least half of then and bagged onltj four birds. The sun was 
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