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the late summer and made but short stops on their southern fight, 
July appeared to be the natural season for shooting woodcock in Illinois. 
At present woodcock shooting is prohibited in Illinois until July, 
1920. If the closed season is maintained North and South, Ilinois will 
have no cause to complain but it is not wise to raise birds in Illinois to 
be shot at the north and south of us, while shooting is prohibited in the 
breeding states. Uniform state laws with a short open season in the fall 
during the migratory season for the northern states would do much to 
preserve this valuable bird, provided there was only a short open season 
in its winter home. 
The Wilson Snipe (Jack Snipe). 
THE WILSON SNIPE. 
(Jack Snipe.) 
Within a quarter of a century the Wilson Snipe was so plentiful in 
parts of Illinois that no amount of shooting appeared to make any 
