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and pale red. The scapulars and tertials are very 

 long and beautiful; on their exterior edges they 

 are bordered with a stripe of yellow, and the inner 

 webs are streaked and marked with bright rust on 

 a deep brown, or rather bronze, ground, reflecting, 

 in different lights, a shining purple or green. The 

 quills are dusky. The rump is glossy violet, or 

 bluish purple; the belly and vent white. The tail 

 consists of twelve pointed feathers of a dark brown, 

 edged with rust colour: the legs are of a dirty or 

 dull green. It is not known to breed in England. 



The Judcock is of nearly the same character as 

 the Snipe; it feeds upon the same kinds of food, 

 inhabits the same swamps and marshes, and 

 conceals itself from the sportsman with as great 

 circumspection, among the rushes or tufts of coarse 

 grass. It, however, differs in this particular, that 

 it seldom rises from its lurking place until it is 

 almost trampled upon, and, when flushed, does not 

 fly to so great a distance. It is as much esteemed 

 as the Snipe, and is cooked in the same manner. 



The legs are not larger than those of a Lark; in 

 other respects they are very like those of the Snipe. 



