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gaUinago ; but has a much longer bill than the latter and 

 two more tail feathers. Its head is divided by a pale cen- 

 tral stripe, as in those species, but its dorsal plumage is more 

 distinctly striped than in S. major ; and the outer tail 

 feather is a quarter of an inch shorter than that of 8. 

 Douglasii. 



Dorsal plumage and wings mostly brownish-black. The top of the 

 head, scapulars, interscapulars, intermediate coverts, posterior greater 

 ones, and tertiaries, reflecting green, and mottled or barred with yel- 

 lowish-brown : this color also forming stripes from the forehead to 

 the nape, over the eyes to the sides of the neck, and more broadly 

 on the exterior edges of the scapulars and interscapulars. Middle 

 dorsal plumage, and first quill fringed with white, most of the 

 wing coverts and lesser quills tipt with the same. Shafts of the pri- 

 maries deep brown ; an inch of the first, near its point, whitish. 

 Rump and tail coverts yellowish-brown, barred with clove-brown. 

 Tail of 16 feathers ; the 3 central pairs rich greenish-black, with 

 reddish-orange or ferruginous ends, crossed by a blackish subtermi- 

 nal line, and tipt with white ; the 3 exterior pairs barred alternately 

 with clove-brown and brownish- white, the white tips broader ; the 2 

 intermediate pairs colored nearly like the middle ones, but partly 

 barred and tipt with white. Under plumage; with a dark brown 

 stripe on the lores, and another under the ear. Sides of the head, 

 front of the neck and breast, pale wood-brown, with central spots of 

 dark umber. The flanks, insides of the wings, and under tail cov- 

 erts, barred with black and white, which on the latter is tinged with 

 brown. Belly white. Bill blackish towards its tip, dark wood-brown 

 at the base. Tail rather long, graduated, the feathers decreasing a 

 little in breadth as they are more exterior. Total length 11^ inches : 

 tail 2 inches 10 lines : the bill, from above, 2 inches 7 lines ; tarsus 1 

 inch 3 lines. 



DOUGLAS'S SNIPE. 



(Scolopax Dotiglasii, Swainson, Richard. North. Zool. p. 400.) 



Sp. Charact. — Tail of 16 feathers, not narrowed, all banded with 



ferruginous, except the outer pair, which are paler. 



