SABINES SNIPE. 



GRALLATORES. 



39 

 SCOLOPACIDJE. 



SABINE'S SNIPE. 



Scolopax Sabini. 



Scolopax Scdrinii Sabine^s Snipe, BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 53. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 105. 

 SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol ii. p. 118. 

 JENVNS, Brit. Vert. p. 204. 

 EYTON, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 100. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 

 Becassine Sabine, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. iv. p. 432. 



THIS Snipe was first made known by the late N. A. 

 Vigors, Esq., in the fourteenth volume of the Transactions 

 of the Linnean Society, and it is due to that eminent Orni- 

 thologist to introduce it here in his own words. 



" This species is at once distinguished from every other 

 European species of Scolopax, by the total absence of white 

 from its plumage, or of any of those lighter tints of ferru- 

 ginous yellow, which extend more or less in stripes along 

 the head and back of them all. In this respect it exhibits 



