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Identifier: birdsofbritish00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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angles ; it changesdirection more deliberately. Mathew aptly speaks of its butter-fly flight. It seldom flies far, often not more than twenty yards,before it drops abruptly into cover, and, unless again forced totake wing, remains in hiding. Indeed, it will sometimes crouchso as to baffle the searcher, and even allow a dog to pick it up.When drumming, the Common Snipe certainly appears to carryits bill straight before it, but it is not easy to see the position\\hen the flushed bird flies from the observer ; I have, however,seen the slower Jack hold its bill inclined downward like thatof the flying Woodcock. Not infrequently nests, said to be ofthe Jack Snipe, have been reported from our islands, but when-ever investigation has been possible they have been shown tobe those of some other species, usually the Dunlin. The most marked difl*erences between the plumage of theJack and Common Snipe have been mentioned, but in additionthis bird has a broad buff stripe over the eye and two dark
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