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which has sixteen), black at the hase, rich rusty 

 barred with black towards the tips ; the breast the 

 same as the neck ; flanks barred white and black ; 

 belly white ; under tail- coverts pale rusty ; legs and 

 toes greenish brown. 



The other Snipe to which I have before alluded 

 as being probably a distinct species has been noticed 

 by one or two writers in the * Zoologist.' Mr. Rocke * 

 says he purchased a Snipe which is fully one-third 

 larger than the Common Snipe ; the buff markings 

 on the back and scapulars are very broad and richly 

 coloured, and the beak much longer than others. 

 Mr. Blake-Knox, in a paper in the 'Zoologist' for 

 1866 (Second Series, p. 302), on the " Migratory and 

 Wandering Birds of the County Dublin," mentions 

 it under the name of the Winter Snipe, and says, 

 " It arrives in October and leaves in February. 

 This bird, though considered the Common Snipe, is 

 widely different from it. It is totally different in 

 markings and size; it also never breeds, to my 

 knowledge, in Ireland, whereas the other does 

 abundantly. Sex or season does not account for 

 this difference. The Common Snipe is alike in 

 winter and summer, and the male is similar to the 

 female. I have also seen the male and female of the 

 Brown or Winter Snipe, and they are similar to each 

 other. The bird I allude to is not the Brown Snipe 



* See ' Zoologist' for 1866 (Second Series), p. 83. 



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