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(3. MACRORAMPHUS, Leach.) 



202. S. grisea> Gmel. (Brown Snipe.) Cinereous 

 brown (winter), or reddish brown variegated with black 

 (summer) ; rump and tail white, with numerous dusky 

 transverse bars. 



S. grfsea, Temm. Man. dS&rn. torn. n. p. 679. S. Noveboracensis, 

 Wils. Amer. Orn. vol. vn. p. 45. pi. 58. f. 1. (Summer.) Brown 

 Snipe, Mont. Orn. Diet. vol. n. tvithfig. in Supp. Brown Long- 

 beak, Selb. Illust. vol. n. p. 103. pi. 24. f. 2. Shaw, Zool. vol.xn. 

 p. 61. pi. 9. 



DIMENS. Entire length eleven inches : length of the bill two inches 

 six lines. MONT. 



DESCRIPT. (Winter plumage.) Between the bill and the eye a dusky 

 streak ; above that, passing over the eye, a white one ; cheeks and throat 

 white, the former with a few brown streaks ; crown of the head, neck, 

 and upper part of the breast, cinereous brown, with the shafts of the 

 feathers somewhat darker ; back and scapulars dark brown, the feathers 

 edged with cinereous and rufous brown; primary quills dusky, the inner 

 ones and largest coverts immediately over them, slightly tipped with 

 white ; smaller coverts above and below the bastard winglet dusky and 

 white ; the rest of the coverts cinereous brown, darkest in the middle of 

 the feathers ; secondary quills dusky brown, tipped and edged with white : 

 lower part of the breast, belly and thighs, pure white; flanks whitish 

 with dusky bars ; lower part of the back white ; rump and under tail- 

 coverts white, with transverse crescent-shaped dusky spots ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail thickly barred with black and white: tail of twelve 

 feathers : bill dusky, lightest at the base : legs yellow olivaceous green. 

 MONT. (Summer plumage.) Crown of the head, nape, back and scapu- 

 lars, reddish brown, variegated with black and yellowish; cheeks, and 

 streak over the eye, pale reddish ; fore part of the neck and breast red- 

 dish brown; wing-coverts cinereous, with whitish edges; belly, rump 

 and tail, as in winter. TEMM. (Young of the year.) All the upper parts 

 blackish brown, the feathers broadly edged with bright ferruginous; 

 eyestreak and under parts dirty white tinged with reddish, the ferruginous 

 tint most distinct on the breast ; breast and flanks spotted with dusky 

 brown; the middle tail-feathers tipped with red. TEMM. (Egg.) Un- 

 known. 



A native of North America. In this country an extremely rare and 

 accidental visitant. The specimen described by Montagu was shot in the 

 beginning of October, on the coast of Devonshire. Since then, a second, 

 in summer plumage, has been killed at Yarmouth. Wilson states that it 

 diifers in its habits from the Common Snipe, keeping on the sea-coast, 

 and being seldom or never seen inland. Food, worms and small bivalve 

 mollusca. Nidification unknown. 



GEN. 79. TRINGA, Briss. 



(1. MACHETES, Cuv.) 



203. T. pugnaos, Linn. (Ruff.) Tail rounded ; the 

 two middle feathers barred ; the three outer ones on each 

 side always of one colour. 



