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Identifier: gamebirdsofindia02bake (find matches)
Title: The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Baker, E. C. Stuart (Edward Charles Stuart), 1864-1944
Subjects: Birds Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, Bombay Natural History Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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of the evening. Every year in August and in March andApril snipe were to be found on the Guilang Peak, lying up in theditch which surrounded the small Fort, this peak being almost 4,000feet high. At Hangrum, over 6,000 feet, the same thing occurred,and once in early August snipe were found absolutely swarming insome scrub jungle on a hill slope just outside the rest-house. Thebirds were very thin and very tired, and so loath to rise that theywere easily killed with dust shot and half charges of powder. Againall through the Assam Valley snipe appear to work due north andsouth and not east and west along the course of the Brahmaputra,and it seems probable that in migration snipe and many other wadersinstead of following the courses of the great rivers work straightacross them, from one range to another. The Fantail Snipe seldom arrives in India until August haswell advanced, and even then it will only be found in the extremenorth. By early September it has worked as far south as Central
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GALLINAGO 63 Bengal, Bombay and the north of the Central Provinces, but it isnot found in any numbers until the middle of that month, and itdoes not usually appear in Madras and Travancore until the endof September, and more often still not until the middle ofOctober. Major E. OBrien records seeing snipe at Palander on the27th September (1917), and seems to consider that date exceptionallyearly, and writing from Coorg, Major J. C. Macrae informs me thatthe first snipe shot in 1908 was on the 14th September, and in 1909on the 18th September. Gates long ago wrote the Fantail doesnot appear (in Burmah) until the cold weather is well in, say,December, but I have records now of birds shot in SouthernBarmah as early as September 25th. On the other hand Colonel G. H. Evans writes that the usualsnipe season in Lower Burmah is from, say, the 20th August tillend of October or early November ... in Upper Burmahthe season is from November until end of February, but . . .I have seen enough snipe a

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