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Scol. Pheopus, L.; Petit Courlis; Enl. 1423 Edw. 3075 Frisch, 
225; Naum. 10,f. 10.(1) Half the size of the PEERED but 
has nearly the same plumage.(2) 
Scotopax, Cuy.(3) 
The Snipes have a straight beak, the nasal furrows extending to 
near its point which is a little inflated externally to reach beyond the 
lower mandible, and on the middle of which there is a simple 
groove; this point is soft and very sensible, and when dried, after death, 
assumes a punctured appearance. Their feetare not palmated. A 
peculiar character of these birds consists in their compressed head 
and large eyes placed very far back, which gives them a singularly 
stupid air, an indication which is confirmed by their habits. 
Scol. rusticola, L.; La Bécasse; Enl. 885; Frisch, 126, 227; 
Naum. Ed. I, I, f. 1. (The Woodcock.). The well known 
plumage of this bird is variegated above with grey, red and 
black spots and bands; grey beneath, with transverse blackish 
lines. Its distinguishing character consists of four broad, trans- 
verse, black bands, which succeed each other on the back part 
of the head. During the summer it inhabits lofty mountains, 
and descends into the woods in the month of October. It lives 
either singly or in pairs, particularly in bad weather, and feeds 
on worms and insects. Few of them remain on the plains during 
summer.(4) 
Scol. gallinago, L.; La Bécassine, Enl. 883; Frisch, 2295 
_Naum.°3, f. 3. (The Snipe.) Smaller than the preceding, and 
with a longer beak; is distinguished by two broad, longitudinal 
black bands on the head, by the neck spotted with brown and 
fawn colour, by a blackish mantle with two longitudinal fawn 
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(1) Pheopus (ash-coloured foot), a name composed by Gesner. 
(2) Add the Num. tenuirostris, Ch. Bonap.;—the Num. rufus, Vieill. Gal. 245; 
—the Courlis demi-bec (Num. brevirostris, T.), Col. 381. 
N.B. In this genus, and almost in the whole of this family, the beak becomes 
lengthened by age. 
. (8) Scolopax, the Greek name of the Woodcock, from cxoac}, stake, on ac- 
count of its straight and pointed beak. Vieillot has changed it into Rusricoxa. 
(4) Add a closely allied species of North America (Scol. minor, Gm.), Arct, Zool. 
II, pl. xix; Vieill. Gal. 242; Wils., VI, xlviii, 2;—Scol. sabini, Vig., Lin. Trans. 
XIV, pl. xxi, if a true species. 
(5) Add the Bécassine muette of Eur., Scol. Brehmii, Kaup., Isis. 1823;—WScol. 
paludosa, Gm. Enl. 895, which is the Sc. gallinago, Wils. VI, xlvii, 1;—Scol. gigan. 
tea, Tem. Col. 403. 
The Brunette of Buffon, Scol. pusilla Dunlin of the English, is only the Tringa 
alpina, Gm. 
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