. I nostri uccelli nei loro grandini : un trattato popolare sugli uccelli del Nord America orientale . più grande, about1.90 X 1-32. Il nido può essere trovato dai confini settentrionali degli Stati Uniti a nord. Wilsons Snipe. Era la sera del 22 aprile 1880. Tutto il pomeriggio avevo sentito sparare armi nella palude selvaggia di Ton^ivanda. Mentre il crepuscolo si avvicinò e thefirii. Ufeased, l'aria si è resa risonante con il canto vernale di Wils/fns Snipe (Gallinago wilsoni). In ogni direzionegli uccelli potrebbero essere visti, descrivendo le loro curve a spirale ascendenti andso- che con quel battito nervoso della vittoria
1279 x 1954 px | 21,7 x 33,1 cm | 8,5 x 13 inches | 150dpi
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. Our birds in their haunts : a popular treatise on the birds of eastern North America . larger, about1.90 X 1-32. The nest may be found from the northernborders of the United States northward. Wilsons snipe. It was the evening of the 22d of April (1880). All theafternoon I had heard firing of guns in the wild meadowsof Ton^ivanda Swamp. As twilight approached and thefirii. ufeased, the air became resonant with the vernal chantof Wils/fns Snipe (Gallinago wilsoni). In every directionthe birds might be seen, describing their ascending andso- ewhat spiral curves with that nervous beat of the wings, so peculiar to themselves, while others, too high to be dis-cerned in the dusky air, added not a little to the generalvocal effect. This song of the Snipe, characteristic of thebreeding season, or even of the entire spring, and heardfor the most part in the early morning, or in the eveningfrom twilight till after dark, is at once striking and stronglydifferentiated Beginning in subdued tones, somewhatlike the sounds produced by the oblique strokes of a Pigeons I J IrlU I III, HI ., . ^» WILSONS SNIPE. 213 wings in alighting, the simple notes are uttered rapidly, and through an ascending scale of nearly an octave in theshortest chromatic steps, the mellow tones being ratherloudest in the middle of the strain and gradually softeningto the closing and highest note, the whole performancebeing after the manner of a swell in music. The notesmight be readily represented by the repetition of the sylla-ble, koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo; and though not decidedly musical, they have in themthe tenderness and inspiration of spring, readily associatingthemselves with April showers, balmy atmospheres, spring-ing grass, and that northern harbinger of spring-flora—the blooming amelanchier^ Here and there, on the evening referred to, one might seethe Snipes alighting—dropping slowly and gracefully downon a falling curve, their wings extending upward at ana
