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which has sixteen), black at the base, rich rusty 
barred with black towards the tips; the breast the 
same as the neck; flanks barred white and black; 
belly white ; under tail-coverts pale rusty; legs and 
toes greenish brown. 
The other Snipe to which I have before alluded 
as being probably a distinct species has been noticed 
by one or two writers in the ‘ Zoologist.’ Mr. Rocke * 
says he purchased a Snipe which is fully one-third 
larger than the Common Snipe; the buff markings 
on the back and scapulars are very broad and richly 
coloured, and the beak much longer than others. 
Mr. Blake-Knox, in a paper in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 
1866 (Second Series, p. 302), on the ‘* Migratory and 
Wandering Birds of the County Dublin,” mentions 
it under the name of the Winter Snipe, and says, 
“Tt arrives in October and leaves in February. 
This bird, though considered the Common Snipe, is 
widely different from it. It is totally different in 
markings and size; it also never breeds, to my 
knowledge, in Ireland, whereas the other does 
abundantly. Sex or season does not account for 
this difference. The Common Snipe is alike in 
winter and summer, and the male is similar to the 
female. I have also seen the male and female of the 
Brown or Winter Snipe, and they are similar to each 
other. The bird I allude to is not the Brown Snipe 
* See ‘ Zoologist’ for 1866 (Secoud Series), p. 83. 
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