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MACRORHAMPHUS GRISEUS. THE GREY 

 LONG-REAK. 



RED-BREASTED SNIPE. BROWN SNIPE. GREY SNIPE. 



Scolopax grisea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 658. 



Scolopax grisea. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 724. 



Scolopax Novseboracensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 658. 



Scolopax Novseboracensis. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 723. 



Brown Snipe. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Becassine Ponetuee. Scolopax grisea. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. II. 679. 



Brown Long-beak. Macroramphus griseus. Sclby, Dlustr. vol. II. p. 103. 



Scolopax grisea. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 207. 



Red-breasted Snipe. Scolopax Noveboracensis. Audub. Ornith. BiogT. 



III. 474. 

 Macroramphus griseus. Bonap. Comp. List, 52. 



Bill twice the length of the head; tail nearly even, of 

 twelve feathers; outer and middle toes connected by a basal 

 web. In u'inter, the plumage of the upper part of the head 

 and hind-neck broivnish-grey ; the fore part of the back of the 

 same colour, spotted with dusky; the rump and tail white, 

 transversely barred with blackish-brown ; the lower parts 

 white; the sides and lower tail-coverts barred with dusky. 

 In summer, the upper parts variegated with brownish-black 

 and light reddish-yellow ; the lower light yellowish-red, more 

 or less spotted and barred with dusky. 



Male. — The Grey Snipe, which is, properly speaking, a 

 native of America, ranks in Britain merely as an accidental 

 straggler. In form and proportions it is not unlike the 

 Common Snipe and several other species, from which in 

 these respects it differs, however, in having the middle and 

 outer toes connected by a basal web extending as far as the 



