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Definitionn. Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family
Last update: October 13, 2015
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Those who only know the Snipe as it shows itself in the shooting-season, when without warning it rises from the boggy ground uttering a sharp note that sounds like scape, scape, and, after a few rapid twists, darts away, if it be not brought down by the gun, to disappear in the distance after a desultory flight, have no conception of the bird's behaviour at breeding-time. [Please select]
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--and a club-footed snipe from Scotland Yard can put it all over me this way,. [Please select]
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THE CHARADRIIDÆ OR PLOVER FAMILY A few snipe and woodcock visit the Palnis in winter. [Please select]
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"If you'll keep that impertinent little gutter-snipe still," Antoine snarled, "I'll answer such questions as seem to me to be worth answering." [Please select]
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The Great Snipe, Solitary Snipe or Double Snipe, is intermediate in size between the Woodcock and Common Snipe. [Please select]
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[Illustration: Great Snipe Jack Snipe [M] Common Snipe Woodcock [M] [_face p. [Please select]
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To this bird has been given not inappropriately the name of Summer Snipe. [Please select]
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In form and mode of living it resembles the Snipe properly so called, and it is known to us only during summer. [Please select]
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I will have a new name, and it shall be snipe. [Please select]
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So it was that the bird whose name was once quail came to be called snipe. [Please select]
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Quails also arrive in great numbers in the month of March, though there are no pheasants, snipe, wood-cocks, nor partridges. [Please select]
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