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4g THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The beak of the Snipe is ftrait, and often rough 
like fhagreen above and below 5 the feet are of a 
pale green. 
The head is divided by two black lines length : 
wife, and three red lines, 
The Snipe is fmaller than the Wb, and 
very much like it in its plumage, but very dif- 
ferent in its manners; for the Snipe never fre- 
quents woods, but confines itfelf to marfhy fitua-_ 
tions, in long grafs, and the ofters or willows on - 
the banks of pools or rivers, 
The Snipe rifes fo high that its cry is heard 
when it can no longer be feen: Snipes have 
‘two different cries. They make their appearance 
: in autumn ; fometimes three or four are feen at a 
‘time, but moft frequently only one. They rife 
when the fowler is at a great diftance, and fly 
- very fwiftly, and after dipping three times, they 
dart forwards two or three hundred yards, or point 
{trait upwards and rife out of ficht, and make a 
ftrange bleating noife. The fowler brings reat 
lower fometimes by imitating their cry. 
Snipes remain in England and in France all 
the winter, near Warm {prings that do not freeze. | 
| They generally leave us in the fummer. They 
build their nefts in June, on the ground, near 
6 Tanger root of a willow, or of an alder-tree, in 
marfhy 
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