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coloured bands, by its brown wings watered with grey, by a 
whitish belly, the flanks watered with brown, &c. It frequents 
marshes, edg of rivulets, &c. and ascends out of sight, pour- 
ing out its piercing note from a great distance, which sounds 
like the bleating of a goat. It is found in nearly the same state 
in all parts of the globe. 
He major, Gm.; La double Bécassine; Frisch, 2283 taster 
2. (The Great Snipe.) Is distinguished from the preceding 
i wa a third larger,’and by the grey or fawn coloured un- 
dulations above being smaller, and the brown ones beneath 
larger and more numerous. , 
Scol. gallinula, Gm.; La Sourde; Enl. 884; Friseh, 231; 
Naum. 4, f. 4. (The Jack Snipe.) Nearly one half smaller than 
the Scol. gallinago; has but one black band on the head; the 
ground of the mantle reflects a bronze- “green; a grey demi-collar 
on the neck; the flanks spotted like the breast with brown; it 
remains nearly the whole year in the marshes of Europe. We 
should distinguish from all others, the 
Sc. grisea, Gm.; Wils. VII, lviii, 13 Se. Paykullit, Nils. Orn. ~ 
Suec. II, pl. 2, and in summer plumage,» Scol. Noveboracensis, 
Lath. (The Red-breasted Snipe.) Which differs in the external 
toes being semi-palmated. It is more ash+coloured in winter, and 
more reddish in summer, the rump always white, spot ed vith 
black. It is also seen in Europe.(1) * 6 a on 
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Birds of India and Africa, whose nearly equal mandibles are 
slightly arcuated at the end, and in which the nasal fossz extend to the 
tip of the upper one, which has no third grooye. 'Theirfeet' are not 
palmated. To the port of Snipes they add more lively colours, 
and are particularly remarkable for the ocellated ‘spots. sind 
corate the quills of both wings and tail. 
These birds are found of various colours, and Gmelin, c a: 
dering them as varieties, unites them under the name of Scol. 
capensis. M. 'Temminck also considers them as different ages 
of one bird. (3) ve 
(1) It appears that Vicillot restricts the name of Scolopar to this subdivision, that 
is, if, as I think, his pl. 241 represents this bird; it is not, eile exact. M. Leach 
makes his genus Macroramrats of it. 
(2) Vieillot has adopted this name and genus, Gal. pl. 240. 
(3) Seol. capensis, 6, Gm. Enl. 922, should be the adult; Scol. capensis, yy en. 
~ 881, or Rynchzxa variegata, Vicill., Galer. 240, the young, and Enl. 270, an inter- 
mediate age. The Chevalier vert, Briss. and Buff. (Rallus benghalensis, Gm.), Al- 
bin. TIT, 90, is also of ‘this genus, and does not even appear to differ from the va- 
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