26 SABINE’S SNIPE. 
recorded in the ‘Zoologist,’ page 1800. In Sussex one, shot 
near Chichester harbour, in June, 1845. 
Like the Jack Snipe, it appears to have the habit, not 
being easily alarmed, of returning again, after being disturbed, 
to the place that it had left. 
In general appearance this bird somewhat resembles the 
Woodcock. Male; length, a little over nine inches and three 
quarters; bill, dark olivaceous brown, dusky towards the tip, 
pale reddish or yellowish brown at the base. Head, crown, 
neck on the back, and nape, dusky reddish, or pale yellowish 
brown, spotted and barred with black on each feather; chin, 
throat, and breast, pale dusky yellowish or reddish, spotted 
and barred with black on each feather. Back above, dusky 
reddish or yellowish brown, spotted and barred with black 
on each feather; on the lower part tinged with grey. 
The wings have the first quill feather the longest. The 
greater and lesser wing coverts are dusky brown, partially 
tinted with pale ferruginous or yellowish brown on each 
feather; primaries, dusky black, the shafts also black, 
tertiaries, dusky brown, partially marked across with pale — 
yellowish brown on each feather; greater and lesser under 
wing coverts, brownish black. The tail, which consists of 
twelve feathers, is black on the inner half, ferruginous brown 
towards the tip, spotted and barred with black; the two 
centre feathers have rather more, and the outer feathers 
rather less, black than the others; upper tail coverts, greyish 
brown. Legs, very dark chesnut brown, as are the toes, the 
two outer of which are united *at the base for a short 
distance; claws, black. 
