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81IOKE lilKDS. 



96. EUROPEAN WOODCOCK. 

 Differs from last in being larger, 13, 

 and in being distinctly banded beneath. 

 Northern Eastern Hemisphere; occasional 

 in Eastern N. A. 



Fig. 110 



Knot 



97. WILSON SNIPE. 

 More slender than Woodcock but about 

 the same length; grayer above, mottled and 

 streaked with darker ; crown with a divided 

 line of lighter; white beneath with a band 

 of dusky streaks across breast; a subterminal 

 band of chestnut on tail, fig. 107. Occurs 

 in (^pen fresh water marshes; when startled 



