24 JACK SNIPE. 



reflections. Head on the crown, neck on the back and nape, 

 yellowish ash-colour, with dark spots and green yellow edges 

 to the feathers: front of the neck and throat, buff-colour, 

 finely marked with black; breast, white; back, yellowish 

 ash-colour, with a black mark on the larger feathers between 

 the light edges and the central colouring. Greater and lesser 

 wing coverts, yellowish ash-colour, with black spots, and 

 greenish yellow edges; tertiaries, yellowish ash-colour, with 

 black 'spots and greenish yellow edges to the inner webs, and 

 rufous edges to the outer webs; upper tail coverts, white. 



