620 SCOLOPAClD,E. 



From an article in the eightli volume of Mr. Loudon's 

 Magazine of Natural History, there is reason to believe that 

 another example of this rare Snipe has occurred in Lanca- 

 shire ; but, singular as it may appear, this species does not 

 seem even yet to have fallen into the hands of any Naturalist 

 out of the British Islands, and all that is known of the bird, 

 or its habits, is contained in the notices here cited. 



The beak is dark brown at the point, paler reddish brown 

 at the base ; irides dark brown ; upper part of the head, the 

 back of the neck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts and tertials, 

 dusky brown, each feather varied by narrow transverse bands 

 of pale yellow brown, which are less numerous on the back 

 than over the wings ; primary quill-feathers dull black, with 

 black shafts ; upper tail-coverts greyish brown ; tail-feathers 

 with the basal half black, the terminal half chestnut brown, 

 spotted and barred with black ; the two centre feathers have 

 rather more, and the outer feathers rather less of black than 

 the others ; chin, neck, breast, and all the under parts of the 

 body, a mixture of dull brown and pale yellow brown, in 

 alternate narrow bars over the whole surface ; legs and toes 

 very dark chestnut brown, claws black. 



The whole length about eleven inches ; the beak two 

 inches five-eighths, or three quarters ; from the carpal joint 

 to the end of the first quill-feather, which is the longest in 

 the wing, five inches. 



