Class II. JACK SNIPE. 



45* 



Gid, Jackfnipe, and Jud- 



cock. Wil. cm. 291. 

 Raii fyn. av. 105. 

 La petite Beccaffine. Brijfon 

 V. 303. tab. 26. fig. 2. 

 okerl. Sccpoli, No. 139. 

 Pizzardirta. Zinan. 101. 



av 



Scolopax gallinula. Z*». _$/?. 



244. 

 ZWj Roer-Sneppe. Brunnicb, 



163. 

 Haar-Schnepfe , Pudel-Sch- 



nepfc, Kleinfte Schnepfe. 



Frifch, II. 231. 

 Br. Zcol. 121 



189. Jack. 

 Snipe, 



THE haunts and food of this fpecies are the 

 fame with thofe of the former ; it alio feeds 

 on fmall fnails : it is much lefs frequent among us, 

 and very difficult to be found, lying fo clofc as to 

 hazard being trod on before it will rife: the flight 

 is never diftant, and its motion is more flu^ifh 

 than that of the larger kind. 



Its weight is lefs than two ounces, inferior by Descrip, 

 half to that of the fnipe ; for which reafon the 

 French call them deux pour un, we the half fnipe. 

 The dimenfions bear not the fame proportion ; 

 the length of the fnipe being twelve inches ; this 

 eight and a half: the bill an inch and a half long : 

 crown of the head black, tinged with ruft color : 

 over each eye is a yellow ftroke ; the neck varied 

 with white, brown, and pale red. The fcapular 

 feathers narrow, very long, brown, bordered with 

 yellow. The rump a gioffy bluifh purple: the 

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