20 COMMON SNIPE. 
brown, yellow, and light chesnut; the quills and lesser wing 
coverts, light dusky brown; the tail feathers barred with brown, 
chesnut, white, and yellow; upper tail coverts, brown, yellow, 
chesnut, and white intermixed; the legs and toes, lizht yellowish 
brown. 
The plate is from a drawing by the Rev. R. P. Alington, 
of Swinhope Rectory, Lincolnshire. . 
