1JK1TISH HIKDS. 



THE DL'XLIS* 



THE bill is black; a whitish line runs from the 

 brow over each eye, and a brownish one from 

 the sides of the mouth to the eyes, and over the 

 cheeks: the fore part of the neck is pale ash, 

 mottled with brown : the -head, hinder part of the 

 neck, upper part of the back, and the scapulars, 

 are brownish ash, but the middle of the feathers 

 on these parts is dark brown ; hence there is a 

 more or less mottled and streaked appearance in 

 different birds. The scapular feathers,, next the 

 back, are deep brown, edged with bright ferru- 

 ginous; tertials, rump, and tail coverts nearly the 

 same : bastard wing, primary and secondary quills, 

 deep brown : lesser coverts brown, edged with 

 yellowish white : greater coverts of nearly the 

 same colour, but tipped with white : throat, breast, 

 belly and vent, white: the two middle feathers of 



* In the north of England these birds are called Stints; in 

 other parts, the Least Snipe, Ox-Bird, Ox-Eye, Bull's-Eye. Sea- 

 Lark, Wagtail, and Purre. 



