386 AVES. 



coloured bands, by its brown wings watered with grey, by a 

 whitish belly, the flanks watered with brown, Sec. It frequents 

 marshes, edges of rivulets, 8cc. and ascends out of sight, pour- 

 ing out its piercing note from a great distance, which sounds 

 like the bleating of a goat. It is found in nearly the same state 

 in all parts of the globe. 



Scot, major, Gm.; La double Becasslne; Frisch, 228 j Naum. 

 2, f. 2. (The Great Snipe.) Is distinguished from the preceding 

 by being a third larger, and by the grey or fawn coloured un- 

 dulations above being smaller, and the brown ones beneath 

 larger and more numerous. 



Seal, gallinula, Gm.; La Sourde; Enl. 884; Frisch, 231; 

 Naum. 4, f. 4. (The Jack Snipe.) Nearly one half smaller than 

 the Scol. gallinago; has but one black band on the head; the 

 ground of the mantle reflects a bronze-green; a grey demi-collar 

 on the neck; the flanks spotted like the breast with brown; it 

 remains nearly the whole year in the marshes of Europe. We 

 should distinguish from all others, the 



' Sc. grisea, Gm.; Wils. VII, Iviii, 1; Sc. PaykuUii, Nils. Orn. 

 Suec. II, pi. 2, and in summer plumage, Scol. Novehoracensisy 

 Lath. (The Red-breasted Snipe.) Which diff^ers in the external 

 toes being semi-palmated. It is more ash-coloured in winter, and 

 more reddish in summer, the rump always white, spotted with 

 black. It is also seen in Europe. (l) 



Rhynchjea, Cuv.(2) 



Birds of India and Africa, whose nearly equal mandibles are 

 slightly arcuated at the end, and in which the nasal fossae extend to the 

 tip of the upper one, which has no third groove. Their feet are not 

 palmated. To the port of Snipes they add more lively colours, 

 and are particularly remarkable for the ocellated spots which de- 

 corate the quills of both wings and tail. 



These birds are found of various colours, and Gmelin, consi- 

 dering them as varieties, unites them under the name of Scol. 

 capensis. M. Temminck also considers them as different ages 

 of one bird. (3) 



(1) It appears that Vieillot restricts the name of Scolopax to this subdivision, that 

 is, if, as I think, his pi. 241 represents this bird; it is not, however, exact. M. Leach 

 makes his genus Machohamphus of it. 



(2) Vieillot has adopted this name and genus, Gal. pi. 240. 



(3) Scol. capensis, <f, Gm. Enl. 922, should be the adult; Scol. capensis, y, Enl. 

 881, or Rynchsea variegata, Vieill., Galer. 240, the young, and Enl. 270, an inter- 

 mediate age. The Chevalier vert, Briss. and Buff. {Rallus henghalensis, Gm.), Al- 

 bin. Ill, 90, is.also of this genus, and does not even appear to differ from the va- 



