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flanks watered with bro^vn, &c. It frequents marshes, edges of ri- 

 vulets, &c., and ascends out of sight, pouring out its piercing note 

 from a great distance, wliich sounds like the bleating of a goat. It 

 is found in nearly the same state in all parts of the globe. 



Scol. major, Gm. ; La double Becassine ; Frisch, 228 ; Naum. 

 2, f. 2. (The Great Snipe). Is distinguished from the preceding 

 by being a third larger, and by the grey or fawn-coloured undula- 

 tions above being smaller, and the brown ones beneath larger and 

 more numerous. 



Scol. galUnida, Gm.; La Sonrcle ; Enl. 884; Frisch, 2.31: 

 Naum. 4, f. 4. (The Jack Snipe). Nearly one lialf smaller iliau 

 the Scol. (jallinacjo ; has but one black band on the head; fhf 

 ground of the mantle reflects a bronze-green; a grey demi -collar on 

 the neck; the flanks spotted like the breast with brown; it remains 

 nearly the whole year in the marshes of Europe*. We should dis- 

 tinguish from all others, the 



Sc. grisea, Gm. ; Wils. VII, Iviii, 1; Sc. Pat/kullii, Nils. Orn. 

 Suec. II, pi. 2, and in summer plumage, Scol. Noveboracensis, hath. 

 (The Red-breasted Snipe), which differs in the external toes being 

 semi-palmated. It is more ash-coloured in winter, and more red- 

 dish in summer, the rump always white, spotted with black. It is 

 also seen in Europe I". 



RhyncHjEaJ, Cuv. 



Birds of Africa and India, whose nearly equal mandibles are slightly 

 arcuated at the end, and in which the nasal fossa extend to the tip of the 

 upper one, which has no third groove. Their feet are not palmated. To 

 the port of Snipes they add more lively colours, and are particularly re- 

 markable for the ocellated spots which decorate the quills of both wings 

 and tail. 



These birds' are found of various colours, and Gmelin, consider- 

 ing them as varieties, unites them under the name of Scol. capensis, 

 M. Temminck also considers them as different ages of one bird§. 



* Add the Becassine mitette of Eur., Scol. Brehmit, Kaup., Isis., 1823; — Scol. pa- 

 ludosa, Gm. Enl. 895, which is the Sc. gaUinago, Wils. VI, xlvii, 1; — Scol. gigantea, 

 Tern. Col. 403. 



The Brunette of Buffon, Scol. pusilla (Dunlin, of the English), is only the Tritiga 

 alpinn, Gm. 



t It appears that Vieillot restricts the name of Scolopax to this suhdi\'ision, that 

 is, if, as I think, his pi. 241 represents this bird; it is not, however, exact. M. Leach 

 makes his genus Macroramphus of it. 



X Vieillot has adopted this name and genus, Gal. pi. 240. 



§ Seal, capensis, d, Gm. Enl. 922, should be the adult; Scol. capensis, g, Enl. 881, 

 or Ri/nchera variesata, Vieill. Galer. 240, the young, and Enl. 270, an intermediate 

 age.' The Chevalier vert, Briss. and Buft: {RaUus benghalens-s. Gm.), Albin, III, 90, 

 is also of this genus, and does not even appear to differ from the variety represented, 

 Enl. 922. N. B. This last plate is the only one that gives a correct representation 

 of the bill peculiar to this little subgenus. Add, a very distinct species from Brazil, 

 Rhynchcea hilarea, Val., Bullet, des Sc. de Ferussac, c. 2. 



