Excerpt from Our Shorebirds and Their Future All snipe hunters will agree that snipe have decreased de cidedly in the past 25 years, and every student of the sub jcet knows that this decrease is due principally to winter shooting in the southern part of the United States. The snipe nest principally in Canada, some even pushing north to the limit of tree growth almost to the Arctic Ocean, while a few nest in northern United States and south to the latitude of New York City (see map, fig. They seem reluctant to return south in fall, even though they can have no appreciation of the constant persecution which awaits them during the six months' sojourn in their winter home. A few migrants appear in the northern part of the United States in early September, and, moving slowly south ward, reach the southern part of the Gulf States shortly after the middle of October. Soon the main body of the birds follows, and all normally keep south of the line of frozen ground. Yet every winter some laggards remain much farther north, feeding about springs or streams. A few can usually be found on Cape Cod, Mass, while in the Rocky Mountains, near Sweetwater Lake, Colo., the pres ence of warm springs has enabled snipe to remain through out an entire winter, though the air temperature fell to 30 Degrees F. Below zero. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.