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Title: Annual report of the Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests of the State of New York
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: New York (State). Commissioners of Fisheries, Game and Forests
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)

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e bloodroot blossoms show white on the borders of the wet meadows, that the drumming ofthe snipe may be heard. This is a part of his love making, which is quite similar inmethod to that of the woodcock. In the early morning, or at evening, or, when theweather is dull and cloudy, at any time of the day, the snipe may be seen to rise inwide spirals high above the earth, often almost disappearing from sight, and then to dartdown from on high with stiffened wings, uttering a twittering humming call, which hasbeen said to be caused in part by the stiff wing feathers against the air in the rapiddescent, but is no doubt.vocal. When he has almost reached the earth he checks hisfall and then drops into the grass, or perhaps he may alight on a fence, a tree twig oran old stump, where he stands for a moment as if to be admired, and then dropsinto the grass. There his mate is awaiting him, and about her he struts with headthrown back, trailing wings and expanded tail, eager to win her admiration.
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WIL50N5 or ENGLI5H 5MIPE, IGallinago media, Wilsoni. FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 263 This performance of the snipe, though less familiar to us than many forms of love-making by the birds, is of course analagous to the drumming of the ruffed grouse, andthe dancing of the prairie chicken, and is still more similar to the love songs of certainsmall birds found on the prairie, sky larks and finches, which, as they have no loftyperches from which they can sing, fly high into the air, and, descending slowly onbalanced wings, utter their song until they reach the ground. The rapid fall of thesnipe somewhat resembles the downward dart of the night hawk. The nest is a primitive affair; just a little hollow in the ground, lined with a fewblades of grass, in which the four eggs lie with their points all together. They are ofa dull clay color, dotted and splashed with large and small spots of a blackish brown.The young leave the nest as soon as they are hatched, and run about after the mother,as

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