104 SCOLOPACIN^E. SCOLOPAX. RUSTICOLA. 



species, on its being flushed, is at first performed in a zigzag 

 manner, until it attains some distance, when it ascends and 

 flies high. Its cry is shrill and harsh. 



Common Snipe. Moor or Mire Snipe. Heather Bliter, 

 Bleater, or Blutter. 



Scolopax Gallinago, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 244. Scolopax 

 Gallinago,Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. Scolopax Gallinago, Temm. 

 Man. d'Ornith, ii. 676. Scolopax Gallinago, Bleater Snipe, 

 MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 



207. SCOLOPAX GALLINULA. JUD SNIPE. 



Tail pointed, of twelve feathers ; secondary quills acutely 

 pointed ; bill about a fourth longer than the head ; a longitu- 

 dinal black band, slightly variegated with red on the head, 

 and on each side a reddish-white band, in part divided by a 

 dusky line ; on the back three longitudinal bands of black 

 glossed with purple and green and variegated with red, and 

 four bands of pale yellowish-red ; the sides longitudinally 

 streaked with brown ; axillar feathers white, with some faint 

 grey elongated lines. 



Male, 8, 14J, 4 T W l/ 5 , }*, 1 T ',, T V 



This species arrives in the end of October, and departs in 

 March and April. It is generally dispersed over the country, 

 residing in marshy places, by the margins of rivers and lakes, 

 in ditches, and, in short, in the same places as the common 

 snipe. It is seldom that several individuals are seen together., 

 and it is not nearly so numerous as the species just mention- 

 ed. On being flushed it flies off low, without emitting any 

 cry, until about sixty or eighty yards off", when it rises, pro- 

 ceeds a short way, and comes down with rapidity in the first 

 suitable place that occurs. Its flesh is equally esteemed with 

 that of the other. 



Jack Snipe. Judcock. Jid. 



Scolopax Gallinula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 244. Scolopax 

 Gallinula, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 715. Scolopax Gallinula, 

 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. ii. 678. Scolopax Gallinula, Jud 

 Snipe, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 



GENUS CVHL RUSTICOLA. WOODCOCK. 



This genus, of which only one species is known to me, 

 differs little from Scolopax. The body is fuller, the neck 

 rather short, the head oblong, compressed, and rounded 



