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HABITS OF THE BIRD
SNIPE SHOOTING. any particular circumstances. The birds are sufficiently dif
Once the birds have arrived in ficult to hit for most of us after Ceylon they do not leave until the they have settled down, rise well end of April, and therefore the in range, and are evenly distribute birds may always be found during fed over the fields. Therefore the snipe season. Yet one often about. 7-30 is the best time to hears that someone has failed to commencé shooting.. obtain a good bag because the Hints to Beginners. country was flooded or was too I would give the following gd- The "Times of Ceylon" pub-dry. It is during floods. or vice to a beginner:—— lishes the text of a radio talk droughts that the best bags can "1. The fielda do not belong to' delivered by Dr. Lucius Nichols, be made in these days of motor you, so you must be careful not Director of the Bacteriological transport, when one may travel to disturb cattle, or fire near work- Institute, on "Snipe and Snipe quickly from one locality to an- ing buffaloes. Never walk in Shooting. He said:-
other: The feeding-grounds are growing paddy. The villager is Five species of anipe have been confined to a few well-marked usually courteous and obliging. found in Ceylon. Of these, four high areas during floods, and to 2. Keep looking round to see if are visitors, and one, the Painted equally well-marked low-lying there are any villagers within snipe, breeds in Ceylon. Only one areas during droughts. :
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of these five species occurs in In certain parts of Ceylon people about, go elsewhere. large numbers in the island, and especially in the south, the snipe 3. If you happen "to pepper" consequently it is the bird which go into the jungle during floods, anyone, pay compensation at once, concerns the sportsman. This is but even then there can be found even if you must pay exorbitantly, the Pintail anipe, so-called be-widely-acattered areas in the At one time the price was a rupee cause there are six small, narrow open teeming with snipe which for a shot mark. But that was teachers the Pin feathers-hid- have been disturbed from their the pre-war rate. den under each side of the large usual grounds. Snipe avoid heavy 4. It is best never to shooti feathers of the tall. They can be jungle where it is difficult for with more than one other gunin seen when the principal tall fee-them to rise to wing quickly, and the field; but keep in line with thers are, widely separated. Very will not enter it under any circum- him and go slowly, you will not little is known of the breeding stances if lighter cover is avall get more birds by going fast over places of the "Pintail anipe, but it able. When the soft muddy areas the ground. Always wait for is stated it breeds in Northern of paddy fields are shrinking dur-your partner when he is looking Asia. Probably those birds which reach Ceylon do not bread as furing dry weather, and there is little for a dead bird.
for no cover on their few feeding 5. Carry your gun pointing to north as the Indian birds. Dur-grounds, the birds will often lie the ground in front of you. Never ling the end of August and at the up during the hottest hours of the carry it with the barrels resting Tal Add Cormont's CLERMONT HOTEL. Phone X.810. beginning of September fights of day on some dry open lands on on the left arm, for if your part-
12. Chatham Road, Howloon a few birds arrive in Ceylon; as which weeds have grown up al-ner is to the left of you, it wil Choicest Location in the Colony in European section Facing Harbour, the season advances larger flights most knee high.
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Addross MANAGEMENT. squint down his gun or "aim" atter of them is disapproved by April, and it is rare for any ex- the bird, as well might a cricketer some people. Yet it is an arduous cept a few stragglers to remain squint down his bat and aim at the pastime requiring knowledge and after May 1. Any Pintail snipe ball. He glues his eyes upon the skill. I know of no sounder exer- which are seen in Ceylon after May, are probably wounded birds bird and is almost unconscious of cise or better sport than a three which have been unable to join the existence of his barrels. We hours' struggle through muddy lands teeming with snipe. The the flights of their fellows. One
car has been left at the nearest road side and on the return to it the birds on the snipe sticks are delightedly viewed and counted.
And then a bottle of beer tops the morning.
for two nests of Pintail snipe have been found in Ceylon:
Snipe feed throughout the day,! but most voraciously during the early morning and evening. Ther are less alert during the midday hours; and in the hot months of March and April they often seek the deep shade of the jungle, and occasionally they may be flush- ed from large trees of thick foli- age, in which they rest upon the larger trunks. The formation of their feet does not allow them to perch on small boughs or twigs.
The Worm-Grubbing Snipe It may appear astonishing that snipe are able to find grubs and worms several inches below the surface of the mud, especially when these creatures are fairly widely distributed. Anyone who wishes to observe snipe feeding should repair to a bund of a tank below which is a good feeding ground for snipe. If the observer is patient and watchful, and stalks carefully along the band, he may be rewarded by seeing a bird feeding close to him. And this is! what he will see. The snipe gent- ly passes his beak into the mud, and remains still, as though he held his senses alert like an animal listening. Suddenly the beak is withdrawn, one or two rapid staps are taken to the right or to the left, backwards or forwards, and the beak is plunged quickly into a chosen spot, and a strug- gling worm or grub is withdrawn and swallowed.
The beak is a delicate organ well Isupplied with nerves and when it
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is passed into the mud the vibra-will assume that a sportsman island David Powell, tions of the slightest movements staggering ankle deep through a
of worms or grubs in the neigh-paddy field, his nerves are at ten-
bourhood are felt, by it, and tell sion for the rising of a bird; one SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG the snipe of the exact position of springs to wing at thirty yards. its lowly victim.
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now is the time for rapid and How to Shoot Snipe. good footwork, as with most other But, to the shooting of snipe. games the player must be "on his Many men attempt to shoot these toes," one or two short steps active birds with any old fowling should assure him of a good piece, and wonder at their lack of stance facing to where the bird is success; and yet the gun of a flying, the gun is brought to the sportsman is as important as the shoulder, both eyes are on the bat of a cricketer, the clubs of a snipe, and, if the bird is crossing, golfer, or the racket of a tennis the barrels are directed behind it player. A good gun cannot be and brought forward past the manufactured, it must be built, bird until they point to & spot and it is a pleasant thought that which appears to be at least a no first class shot gun has ever yard in front of the bird, and the been built in any country, except gun must be fired while it is still England:
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ie. the fact that almost all the "follow through" is most import- guns used in the best American fant in shooting.
There duck clubs are English.
The most difficult bird. is the are only about half a dozen first- class gun builders in the world, bird that goes straight away from such as Purdy, Greener, Lancas-the sportsman and continues to ter, Holland and Holland, and rise as it goes away.
The dif- Rigby; these are followed fairly ficulty in this case is because for closely by such firms as Jeffries, this flight the principle of the Evans, Westley-Rickards and "follow through," namely, the others; but some of these firms firing with a moving gun is so states that a Polar expedition is Vladivostock for the manufacture cheap guns, which easily forgotten. For this shot leaving they facetiously call gamekeeper'e the gun is swept upwards from Wrangel Island. The object is the guns. A gun cannot be built for pointing to the ground beneath investigation of the movements of less than about forty guineas the bird, and as the barrels rise the northern lee foes and the col- Rifles can be manufactured, but above the bird and it is hidden by lection of specimens of flora and that is another matter. In darap the barrels, the gun is fired and fauna of the island. It is estimated that the expedition. will be away climates, such as Ceylon, guns re-assuredly the snipe will drop. quire constant attention or they At dawn the snipe seek their for about three years. will soon rust and degenerate
Habits of the Birds.
feeding-grounds and are very un- settled for the first two hours The art of enfpe shooting may after daybreak, and during this be divided into two categories time most of them rise out of namely, a knowledge of guns and range and often at the sound of
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