20 COMMON SNIPE. 



brown, yellow, and light chesnut; the quills and lesser wing 

 coverts, light dusky brown; the tail feathers barred with brown, 

 chesnut, white, and yellow; upper tail coverts, brown, yellow, 

 chesnut, and white intermixed; the legs and toes, light yellowish 

 brown. 



The plate is from a drawing by the Rev. R. P. Alington, 

 of Swinhope Rectory, Lincolnshire. 



