Table 1.--Summary of Winter Snipe Count, January 26-30, 1952 
No. of Total Snipe per Total Snipe per 
State Counts Snipe Count Hours Hour 
California 32 330 10.0 21h 1.5 
Arizona 2 3 1.5 5h 0.6 
New Mexico 13 26 2.0 68- 3/kk 0. hy 
Texas 33 481 14.5 1394 5 
Arkansas 13 (41)% 358 (412) 27.5 8 4.3 
Louisiana 22 (#1) bolas (4500) 202.0 Wy3-3/4 30.9 
Mississippi 15 9654 176.9 101 26.2 
Alabama 20 rs "993 (+28) 49.7 894 11.1 
Florida 12 278 23.2 45=3/ls 6. 
Georgi a 1 h h 8 0. 5 
Tennessee 3 0 0 59 0 
Tllinois 1 22 22 7-3/4 2.8 
Kentucky 1 0 0 0 
South Carolina 10 303 0.3 7 6.5 
North Carolina i (41)# 35 (42) 8.8 a 1.0 
Virginia 3 15 5.0 1 1.2 

185 (45) 9,947 (4542) 53.8 1,069~ 3/4 9.3 
# Number of hours afield not stated; these counts are not included in 
computations of "Snipe per Count" or "Snipe per Hour." 
Data from Christmas Season Counts.--An analysis of the number of 
snipe recorded on the annual Christmas Bird Counts during the past five 
years (based on annual coverage of between 3,279 and h,372 party-hours of 
field work in snipe-reporting areas, Table 2) indicates no significant 
change from the winter of 1950-51 to the winter of 1951-52. The number 
of snipe recorded per 100 party-hours afield is presented for each of the 
five Fish and Wildlife Service administrative regions (Map 2) during the 
last five winters to give some indication of wintering abundance in the 
various regions. The data for Regions 1, 2 and 3 are quite variable due 
to the relatively small number of areas included. The total number of . 
snipe recorded per 100 party-hours for each of the previous years differs 
from the figures presented last year for two reasons: (1) the previous 
tabulation was based only on counts from the central and southern states, 
whereas the present figures include all areas which have been covered all 
five years and have reported snipe one or more of these years; and (2) some 
areas which had been covered all four of the previous years (notably 
Harlingen, Tex., which has several times recorded more of this species than 
any other area) were not covered the fifth year and so had to be dropped 
from the series. In spite of the addition of several new areas and the 
necessary elimination of a few old ones, the year-to-year trend is unaltered. 
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