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fore part of the neck is a streak composed of umber- 

 brown spots. Lower part of the neck and breast pale 

 yellowish-brown, with a grey tinge, spotted and barred 

 with dusky or blackish-brown. Abdomen and thighs 

 pure white. Flanks barred with deep hair-brown. 

 Back and scapulars velvet-black, with a purplish or 

 bronzed reflection, barred with pale chestnut-brown, 

 and having the outer webs of the feathers deeply edged 

 with cream-yellow. Wing-coverts hair-brown, barred 

 with pale chestnut-brown, and tipped with reddish- 

 white. Quills black; the first having its outer web 

 nearly white. Tail consisting of fourteen feathers, 

 black for two-thirds of their length ; the rest being red- 

 dish-brown with a black bar, and with reddish-white 

 tips. Upper tail-coverts yellowish-brown, barred with 

 hair-brown. Legs and feet deep ash-grey, or lead-co- 

 loured. 



The plumage of both sexes is similar, but the female ge- 

 nerally exceeds the male bird in size. 



JACK SNIPE. 



SCOLOPAX GALLINULA. 



PLATE XXIII. Fig. 5. 



Scolopax Gallinula, Linn. Syst. 1. 244. 8 Gmel. Syst 1. 662. Lath. Ind 



Orn. 2. 715. sp. 8.Ftem. Br. Anim. 1. 106. sp. 149. 

 Gallinaffo minima, Ran Syn. 105. A. 3. Will. 314 Steph. Shaw's Zool. 



12. 57. 



Gallinago minor, Briss. Orn. 5. 303. 3. 26. f. 2. 

 La Petite Be'cassine, Buff. Ois. 7. 490. 

 Be'cassine sourde, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 678. 

 Moorschneppe, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. p. 196. Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 



2. 364. 

 Jack Snipe, Gid, or Judcock, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 189. t. 68 Arct. 



Zool. 2. 367. Will. (Angl.) 291. Albinos Br. Birds, 3. t. 81. Lath. 



Syn. 5. 136. 8. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 2 Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. 73. 



Shaw's Zool. 12. M.Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 106. sp. 149. 



THIS is the smallest species of true Scolopax hitherto dis- 



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