
A total of 26 snipe were counted in 538 minutes of flying along 
the three different transects, or an average of 27.l, snipe per hour. 
Fifty-nine percent of the snipe recorded were seen by Lynch, and 1 
percent by Robbins who sat in the back seat. Any observer or pilote 
observer who is to participate in aerial snipe transects must have 
‘at least two or three hours of training flights to become familiar 
with the spotting and identification of snipe from the air. The 
birds are seen for so few seconds and frequently at such poor angles 
and in such poor light that they are difficult to identify. Air 
transects should preferably be made during January aad the first 
week of February, as there is a decided influx of other shore birds 
into the rice fields after this date, 

Sh INT.-—DUP. SEC., WASH., D.c.94566 
