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The bill is greenish-black, fading towards the tip to wood- 
brown, and measures five inches in length; the lores are 
green. The head, throat, and back of the upper part 
of the neck are pale hair-brown ; the feathers margined 
with white, and giving a spotted appearance. On the 
forepart of the neck are two narrow transverse bars, and 
a large irregular spot of white. Lower part of the 
neck, and the whole of the under parts, of a hair-brown 
colour, the margins of the feathers having greenish re- 
flections. Upper parts of the body, wings, and tail, 
glossy olive-green, with faint changeable reflections of 
purplish-red upon the scapulars and wing coverts. 
Legs and toes blackish-green. 
Famity II.—SCOLOPACID. 
Tuts family, partaking, in an equal degree with that of 
Ardeade, of the advantage of both elements of land and wa- 
ter, naturally forms the other typical division of the order 
Grallatores. In the various members of which it is com- 
posed, the bill is long, fully developed, and admirably 
adapted for extracting or securing their prey, in the marshes, 
or on the shores of the ocean, where they resort ; and this 
again is accompanied by a proportionate length of leg, giving 
them the power of wading to some depth in search of it. In 
tracing the affinities of the family, we find it beautifully con- 
nected with the preceding one of Ardeade, through the in- 
terposition of Numenius, which approaches very closely to 
the genus Jbis of that family in the form of the bill. To the 
Rallide, another but aberrant family of this order, its con- 
nexion is readily traced by means of Phalaropus and Lobipes, 
which possess the lobated foot of the Coots, and whose ha- 
bits (as being more aquatic), place them at the extremity of 
the Scolopacide ; and to the fifth family, or Charadriada, 
