jack-snipe

While Davies made yet another trip, I stalked some birds with a gun, and obtained what resembled a specimen of the smallest variety of jack-snipe, and small at that; but I made a great noise, which I hope persuaded somebody of the purity of our motives.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

There were two species of Laridae, neither of which I had seen before, several small Tringae, the very long red shanked bird, Hematopus? the metallic Tantalus, common, jack-snipe, and hosts of Budytes, which were busily employed flying and flitting about after insects.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

In November, when the broom on the sides of the hills was a fine pink-brown, and when the wet places which the flood had left abounded in jack-snipe and afforded the neatest shooting in the world, I turned my back upon the ranch, where I had been very prodigal of the best of riches, -- "the loose change of time."

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

The island abounds with small snipes, similar to the English jack-snipe.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

The jack-snipe (_G. gallinula_) seems never to appear before

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

SHOT at a jack-snipe in the sleugh to-day, but missed him.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

“A woodcock in alders doing a jack-snipe twist is worse, ” grunted

The Fighting Chance 1899

They had passed the rabbit - brier country scathless, with two black mallard, a jack-snipe, and a rabbit to the credit of their score, and were now advancing through that dimly lit enchanted land of tall grey alders where, in the sudden twilight of the leaves, woodcock after woodcock fluttered upward twittering, only to stop and drop, transformed at the vicious crack of

The Fighting Chance 1899

She asked me if I'd ever seen a jack-snipe on a wet, dreary day, a-standing on a sandbar, all alone like and forlorn.

The Rose in the Ring George Barr McCutcheon 1897

Even a jack-snipe may have his little affairs of the heart, and a cock-salmon his gamble.

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891