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Quills dusky ; the outer webs having triangular bars of 
chestnut-brown. First quill-feather in the males im- 
perfectly barred near the tip, or immaculate; in the fe- 
males generally barred throughout the whole length. 
Under parts greyish-white, tinged more or less with yel- 
lowish-brown, and transversely barred with hair-brown. 
Vent and under tail-coverts yellowish-white, with trian- 
gular centres of black. Legs livid or flesh-red, tinged 
with grey. Lower part of the tibia feathered. 
GREAT SNIPE. 
Scotopax masor, Gel. 
PLATE XXIII. Fie. 2. 
Scolopax major, Gmel. Syst. 1. 661.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 714. 4.——Flem. Br. 
Anim. 1. 105. sp. 146. 
Gallinago major, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 51. pl. 8. 
Grande ou Double Bécassine, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 675. 
Great Snipe, Br. Zool. 2. No. 188.-—-Arct. Zool. 2. 470. B.—Lath. Syn. 5. 
133. 4.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. 2. and Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. 67.— 
Shaw’s Zool. 12. 51. pl. 8. 
ProvinciaL—Solitary Snipe. 
THE Great, or, asit is frequently called, the Solitary Snipe, 
is known to us as an occasional visitant, from a few stragglers 
being now and then driven upon our coasts during their pe- 
riodical migrations, the immediate direction of their latitu- 
dinal flight being much to the east of the longitude of the 
British Islands. Such instances, as far as I have been able 
to ascertain (and all those which have fallen under my own 
observation), have occurred during the autumnal or equato- 
rial movements of these birds, when, quitting the:colder re- 
gions of the northern parts of Europe, where they breed and 
pass the summer months, they seek more genial climates, 
and in which, from the mildriess of the winter and absence 
of severe frost, they are certain of obtaining a constant sup- 
ply of food. Monracu mentions birds of this species hav- 
H 2 
Occasion- 
al visi- 
tant. 
