SABINE S SNIPE. 



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GRALLATORES. 



SCOLOPACWM. 



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SABINE^S SNIPE. 



Scdopax Sahini, Sabine's Snipe, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 53. 



,, Flem. Brit. An. p. 105. 



,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 1 18. 



Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 204. 



,, Eyton, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 100. 



,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 



Btcassine Sabine, Temm. Man. d'Ornitli. vol. iv. p. 432. 



This Snipe was first made known by the late N. A. 

 Vigors, Esq. in the fourteenth volume of the Transactions of 

 the Linncan Society, and it is due to that eminent Ornitho- 

 logist to introduce it here in his own words. 



" This species is at once distinguished from every other 

 European species of Scolopax, by the total absence of white 

 from its plumage, or of any of those lighter tints of ferru- 

 ginous yellow, wl)ich extend more or less in stripes along the 

 head and back of them all. In this respect it exhibits a 



