26 SABINE'S SNIPE. 



recorded in the 'Zoologist,' page 1300. In Sussex one, shot 

 near Chichester harbour, in June, 1845. 



Like the Jack Snipe, it appears to have the habit, not 

 being easily alarmed, of returning again, after being disturbed, 

 to the place that it had left. 



In general appearance this bird somewhat resembles the 

 Woodcock. Male; length, a little over nine inches and three 

 quarters; bill, dark olivaceous brown, dusky towards the tip, 

 pale reddish or yellowish brown at the base. Head, crown, 

 neck on the back, and nape, dusky reddish, or pale yellowish 

 brown, spotted and barred with black on each feather; chin, 

 throat, and breast, pale dusky yellowish or reddish, spotted 

 and barred with black on each feather. Back above, dusky 

 reddish or yellowish brown, spotted and barred with black 

 on each feather; on the lower part tinged with grey. 



The wings have the first quill feather the longest. The 

 greater and lesser wing coverts are dusky brown, partially 

 tinted with pale ferruginous or yellowish brown on each 

 feather; primaries, dusky black, the shafts also black; 

 tertiaries, dusky brown, partially marked across with pale 

 yellowish brown on each feather; greater and lesser under 

 wing coverts, brownish black. The tail, which consists of 

 twelve feathers, is black on the inner half, ferruginous brown 

 towards the tip, spotted and barred with black; the two 

 centre feathers have rather more, and the outer feathers 

 rather less, black than the others; upper tail coverts, greyish 

 brown. Legs, very dark chesnut brown, as are the toes, the 

 two outer of which are united at the base for a short 

 distance; claws, black. 



