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with narrow transverse white bars. The base of the 

 lower mandible is brick-red, the other part brownish- 

 black. The legs are red. 



. 2. represents the young of the year (or Spotted Snipe Young 



, . j bird of the 



of authors), and is taken from a specimen killed on the year . 



coast of Norfolk, and presented to me by H. GIRDLE- 

 STONE, Esq. of Yarmouth. 



The bill is brownish-black ; the base of the under mandible 

 red. Between the bill and eyes is a patch of white, and 

 below is another of hair-brown. The chin and throat 

 are white. The forepart of the neck, the breast, and all 

 the under parts, are greyish-white, with transverse un- 

 dulating bars of pale hair-brown. The hindpart of the 

 neck is hair-brown, the feathers being margined with 

 greyish-white. The back is clove-brown, the margins 

 of the feathers having small triangular spots of white. 

 The wing-coverts, scapulars, and tertials, are deep 

 clove-brown, with large triangular white bars and spots. 

 Tail deep hair-brown, barred with greyish-white, and 

 forming (as observed by MONTAGU) a double fork ; the 

 middle and outer feathers being the longest. The lower 

 part of the back is white. The upper tail-coverts are 

 white, with dark hair-brown bars. Legs and toes 

 orange-red. 



The adult bird in the winter plumage has the eye-brows Adult bird 

 pure white; and between the bill and the eyes is a 

 dusky patch or streak. The crown of the head, the 

 sides and back part of the neck, and upper part of the 

 back, are of a fine ash-grey. The chin, throat, and 

 under parts, are of pure white. The scapulars and ter- 

 tials are ash-grey, having the margins of the feathers 

 with alternate bars of white and hair -brown. The 

 wing-coverts are deep ash-grey, barred upon their mar- 

 gins with white and blackish grey. The lower part of 

 the back is white. The upper tail-coverts white, barred 



