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bar and a whitish tip. The lateral feathers 

 are ashy, barred with brown and tipped 

 whitish. The lesser and median upper 

 wing-coverts are irregularly barred with 

 dark brown and buff. The greater and 

 primary coverts are dark brown, tipped 

 with white. The primaries and the outer 

 secondaries are plain, dark brown, with 

 slightly paler tips. The inner long 

 secondaries are barred with black and 

 dull chestnut. The chest and breast are 

 fulvous, mottled with black ; the sides of 

 the body are fulvous, barred with black ; 

 the abdomen and thighs are dull white 

 barred with brown ; the under tail-coverts 

 are barred with brown, fulvous, and white. 

 The axillaries are ashy brown, obliquely 

 barred with white ; the under wing-coverts 

 are regularly barred with ashy brown and 

 white. 



The sexes do not differ much in size. 

 Length about 12 ; wing 5^; tail about 2 ; 

 bill about 2^. The bill is brown, darker 

 on the terminal third of its length ; the 

 irides are brown ; the legs are plumbeous 

 or greenish. Weight usually up to a little 

 more than 6 oz.* There are eighteen 



* Mr. J. W. Ditmas states that a Snipe of this 

 species, shot by him in the Wynaad, weighed 



