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SNOILSKY, CARL JOHAN GUSTAF, See also:COUNT (1841-1903) , See also:Swedish poet, was See also:born at See also:Stockholm on the 8th of See also:September 1841. He was educated at the See also:Clara School, and in 186o became a student at See also:Upsala. He was trained for See also:diplomacy, which he quitted for See also:work at the Swedish See also:Foreign See also:Office. As See also:early as 1861, under the See also:pseudonym of " Sven Trost," he began to See also:print poems, and he soon became the centre of the brilliant See also:literary society of the See also:capital. In 1862 he published a collection of lyrics called Orchideer (" See also:Orchids "). During 1864 and 1865 he was in See also:Madrid and See also:Paris on See also:diplomatic See also:missions. It was in 1869, when he first collected his Dikter under his own name, that Snoilsky took See also:rank among the most eminent contemporary poets. His ' Though this word is clearly not intended as a See also:nickname, such as is the prefix which See also:custom has applied to the flaw, See also:Pie, See also:Redbreast, See also:Titmouse or See also:Wren, one can only guess at its origin or meaning. It may be, as in Jackass, an indication of See also:sex, for it is a popular belief that the See also:Jack-See also:Snipe is the male of the See also:common See also:species; or, again, it may refer to the comparatively small See also:size of the See also:bird, as the " jack " in the See also:game of See also:bowls is the smallest of the See also:ball's used, and as See also:fisher-men See also:call the smaller Pikes Jacks. ' His See also:account was published by Hewitson in May 1855 (Eggs Br. Birds, 3rd ed., ii. pp. 356-358).

6 The so-called Painted Snipes, forming the genus Rhynchaea, demand a few words. Four species have been described, natives respectively of S. See also:

America, See also:Africa, See also:India with See also:China, and See also:Australia. In all of these it appears that the See also:female is larger and more brilliantly coloured than the male, and in the Australian species she is further distinguished by what in most birds is emphatically a masculine See also:property, though its use is here unknown—namely, a complex trachea, while the male has that See also:organ See also:simple. He is also believed to undertake the See also:duty of See also:incubation. The See also:Double or Solitary Snipe of See also:English sportsmen, S. See also:major, a larger species, also inhabits N. See also:Europe, and may be readily re-cognized by the See also:white bars in its wings and by its 16 or occasion-ally 18 rectrices. It has also a very different behaviour. When flushed it rises without alarm-cry, and flies heavily. In the breeding See also:season much of its love-performance is exhibited on the ground, and the sounds to which it gives rise are of another See also:character; but the exact way in which its " drumming " is effected has not been ascertained. Its gesticulations at this See also:time have been well described by See also:Professor Collett in a communication ' Hence in many See also:languages the Snipe is known by names signifying " Flying See also:Goat," " See also:Heaven's See also:Ram," as in See also:Scotland by " Heatherbleater." s Cf. Meves, Oef vers.

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Vet.-Akad. Forte. (1856), pp. 275-277 (transl. Naumannia, 1858, pp. 116, 117), and Proc. Zool. Society (1858), p. 202„ with Wolley's remarks thereon, Zool. Garten (1876), pp. 204-208; P.

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Bahr (Proc. Zeal. See also:Soc. of See also:London, 1907, p. 12) has given a full account of the subject, with diagrams of the modified feathers. Sonneter in 1871 increased his reputation. Then, for some years, Snoilsky abandoned See also:poetry, and devoted himself to the work of the Foreign Office and to the study of See also:numismatics. In 1876, however, he published a See also:translation of the See also:ballads of See also:Goethe. Snoilsky had in 1876 been appointed keeper of the records, and had succeeded See also:Bishop Genberg as one of the eighteen of the Swedish See also:Academy. But in 1879 he resigned all his posts, and See also:left See also:Sweden abruptly for See also:Florence with the Baroness Ruuth-See also:Piper, whom he married in 1880. Count Snoilsky sent See also:home in 1881 a See also:volume of See also:Nye Dikter (New Poems). Two other volumes of Dikter appeared in 1883 and 1887, and 1897; See also:Savonarola, a poem, in 1883, and Hvita frun (" The White See also:Lady ") in 1885.

In 1886 he collected his poems dealing with See also:

national subjects as Svenska bilder (2nd ed., 1895), which ranks as a Swedish classic. In 1891 he returned to Stockholm, and was appointed See also:principal librarian of the Royal Library. He died at Stockholm on the 19th of May 1903. His literary See also:influence in Sweden was very See also:great; he always sang of joy and See also:liberty and beauty, and in his lyrics, more than in most See also:modern See also:verse, the See also:ecstasy of youth finds expression. He is remarkable, also, for the extreme delicacy and melodiousness of his verse-forms. His Samtade dikter were collected (Stockholm, g vols.) in 1903-1904.

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