SCOLOPACID 2. 415 
neck the same; the rest of the back of the neck 
brownish rusty, with a dark streak in the centre of 
each feather; back and scapulars velvet-black, every 
feather narrowly margined and marked with rich 
rusty,—the stripes down the back are distinctly 
marked as in the common species, but are much 
richer in colour, except the lower part of the outer 
stripe, which approaches the pale cream-colour of 
the Common Snipe; the rump is black; the tail- 
coverts rusty brown, barred with black; the number 
of feathers in the tail the same as in the common 
species; the part which projects beyond the tail- 
coverts is rich rusty, with a single irregular bar of 
black,—the lower part of the feathers has more 
black than the upper part, the shafts are black; 
primary and secondary quills much the same as in 
the common species; lesser wing-coverts black 
towards the base, marked in the centre with rusty, 
round this an irregular black mark, and beyond this 
a margin of pale brownish rusty; shafts black; the 
greater coverts of the secondaries black at the base, 
barred towards the tip with black and rusty; tip 
itself very pale rusty, nearly white; chin nearly 
white ; throat and breast rusty, each feather streaked 
with dusky ; flanks and all the under parts white, 
barred with dusky. 
Varieties of the Common Snipe occasionally 
occur. A cream-coloured variety was lately shot 
near here, by Mr. Winter, of Watts House: the 
