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AVES. 
Scolopax gallinago. — The Common Snipe. 
Plate LXII. fig. 8. 
Cream-yellow, mottled, barred, streaked, and spotted with 
black and brown; abdomen white; sides barred; quills dusky, 
edged with white; legs greenish. Ten inches long. Inhabits 
Europe. 
Section III.—Intermediate and exterior toe united by a mem¬ 
brane. Exemplified in the red-breasted snipe. 
Genus 29. — RYNCHCE A. — Cuvier. 
Generic Character. —Bill longer than the head, gibbous to¬ 
wards the point, and greatly compressed, inflected towards the 
tip ; upper mandible with a groove, lower mandible channel" 
led near the point; nasal furrow extending to the middle of the 
bill; nostrils linear; tarsus longer than the intermediate toe; 
three anterior toes entirely divided ; hallux articulated on the tar¬ 
sus ; wings short, concave; second and third feathers longest. 
Rynchcca Capensis — The Cape Snipe. 
Plate LXVIII. fig. 8. 
Reddish-brown above, variegated with different streaks of ash- 
colour, black, and brown; breast, abdomen, and crissum, white ; 
bill and legs dusky. Ten inches long. Inhabits the Cape. 
Genus 30.—EURYPYGA.— Illiger. 
Generic Character. — Bill long, hard, straight, compressed, 
and tumid at the tip; nasal furrow deep ; sides of the lower 
mandible sulcated; tip of upper mandible with a small notch; 
nostrils basal, linear, oblong; legs long, tibia partly naked; tar¬ 
sus longer than the intermediate toe ; feet with three anterior 
toes, the external one united by a membrane the length of first 
joint, the internal free; hallux articulated on the tarsus, long, 
and the point resting on the ground; wings of medium length ; 
first and fourth quills longest. 
Eurypyga Helias. — The Variegated Helias. 
Plate LXVIII. fig. 9. 
Head gray; neck ferruginous, throat white ; back, breast, 
tail, and scapulars gray, transversely clouded and barred with 
