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and eyes is a dark streak. The eye-streak and chin 

 white, tinged with reddish-brown. Nape and back 

 part of the neck blackish-brown, margined with yellow- 

 ish-brown. Upper part of the back and scapulars black, 

 beautifully margined, and varied with pale reddish- 

 brown and white. The tertials black, with oblique nar- 

 row transverse bars of pale brownish-red. Lower part 

 of the back, rump, and tail white, barred transversely 

 with black. Fore part of the neck, breast, flanks, 

 and thighs pale orange-brown, spotted with black. 

 Belly and abdomen reddish-white. Vent and under 

 tail-coverts white, tinged with reddish-brown, and bar- 

 red with black. Legs and toes greenish-grey. Bill 

 having the point black, and the base wrinkled, and of a 

 deep greenish-grey colour. 



In the winter the plumage of this bird is nearly as fol- Winter 

 lows : The eye-streak, cheeks, and chin white. Between P luma S e - 

 the bill and eye is a dusky streak. Crown of the head, 

 neck, and upper part of the breast, deep-grey, tinged 

 with brown. Upper part of the back and scapulars 

 clove-brown, the feathers being margined with ash- 

 grey and reddish-brown. Wing-coverts hair-brown, 

 with paler margins. The greater coverts, as well as 

 the secondary quills, margined and tipped with white. 

 Lower part of the breast and belly white. Under tail- 

 coverts and vent white, barred with deep hair-brown. 

 Rump and tail as in the summer plumage. Quills deep 

 hair-brown, the shaft of the first quill being white. 



GENUS SCOLOPAX, LINN. 



GENERIC CHARACTERS. 



Bill long, slender, straight ; the tip obtuse, rounded, and 

 ending with an internal knob ; both mandibles, in dead 

 birds, rugose behind the tip ; under mandible shorter than 



