118 GRALLATORES. SCOLOPAX. SNIPE. 



and tipped with white. Greater coverts black, tipped 

 with white. Quills dusky, or deep hair-brown. Breast, 

 sides, and flanks white, with triangular transverse bars 

 of deep hair-brown. Belly the same, with smaller hair- 

 brown undulations or bars. Thighs barred, hair-brown 

 and white. Tail consisting of sixteen feathers ; the two 

 centre ones black for two-thirds of their length ; the re- 

 maining part of a bright chestnut-brown colour, with a 

 narrow black bar near the tip, which is itself reddish- 

 white ; and the outer feathers white, barred with hair- 

 brown. Upper tail- coverts yellowish-brown, barred 

 with black. Legs yellowish-grey, tinged with brown. 



SABINE'S SNIPE. 



SCOLOPAX SABINI, Vigors. 



PLATE XXIV. FIG. 1. 



Scolopax Sabini, Vigors in Trans, of Linnean Society, vol. xiv. 556. Jar- 

 dine and Selby's Illus. of Ornith. vol. i. pi. 27 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 105. 

 sp. 147. 



Sabine's Snipe, Vigors, &c. as above. 



THIS recent addition to the list of British birds, was first 

 recognised by Mr VIGORS, and described by him under its 

 present title in the fourteenth volume of the Transactions of 

 the Linnean Society, from an individual killed in Queen's 

 County, Ireland, in August 182, and which, fortunately 

 for science, was sent to him on the same day that it was shot, 

 as presenting a remarkable deviation from the usual plumage 

 of the common species. This specimen now enriches the col- 

 lection of the Zoological Society in London, having been 

 presented to it by Mr VIGORS, together with a numerous 

 and very valuable assortment of other birds. A second in- 

 stance afterwards occurred, in that of a female (agreeing in 

 every respect as to plumage and general proportion with the 

 bird first described) which was shot on the banks of the 



