190 WADING BIRDS. 



dusky spots and bars. Legs and feet cinereous-olive. — In the young 

 bird, the whole throat and neck is almost equally mottled, and the 

 tertiaries and lesser wing coverts are more abundantly barred with 

 pale brown, the latter edged and tipt with white ; the white edgings 

 on the scapulars and back feathers are also more conspicuous, and 

 the rump and tail coverts lighter : the ferruginous bands on the tail 

 are more intense ; and the bill is a quarter of an inch shorter, 



Obs. The specimen described by Dr. Richardson, from Hudson's 

 Bay, is only 10^ inches long, and the two outer pairs of tail feathers 

 are brownish-white, with three narrow, equidistant, blackish bars. 



On comparing our Snipe with the European (S. galUnago,) the 

 black feathers on the top of the head in that are spotted with brown, 

 the medial line more distinctly marked. The outer pale edges of 

 the scapulars are broader, and not so distinctly fringed with white. 

 The tertiaries are much more strongly barred with tawny -brown. 

 The RU3IP may be said to be tawny-hrown zcith black undulating bars. 

 The lesser wing coverts are more broadly tipt with white. Tail 

 of 14 feathers, the outermost quite as broad as the rest, which 

 have much more brown upon them than in ours, and the tail itself 

 is nearly even when spread. Throat and breast less darkly spotted ; 

 and the region of white below more extensive. The flanks with far 

 fewer dusky bars ; and with more white than black on the long ax- 

 illaries. The vent less brown. The naked space on the tibia more 

 extensive. Size the same with ours : and the bill and legs alike. 



DRUMMOND'S SNIPE. 



(Scolopax Drummojidii, Swainson, Richard. North. Zool p. 400. 



Peethapacasew, Cree Indians.) 

 Sp. Charact. — Tail of 16 feathers ; the two outer pairs somewhat 



narrov/ed, varied with black and white ; the rest broadly banded 



with ferruginous. 



This species, according to Dr. Richardson, is common 

 in the fur countries up to latitude 65°, and is likewise 

 found in the recesses of the Rocky Mountains. Its man- 

 ners are in all respects similar to those of the European 

 Snipe. It is intermediate in size between S. major and 



