118 GRALLATORES. SCOLOPAX. SNIPE. 
and tipped with white. Greater coverts black, tipped 
with white. Quills dusky, or deep hair-brown. Breast, 
sides, and flanks white, with triangular transverse bars 
of deep hair-brown. Belly the same, with smaller hair- 
brown undulations or bars. Thighs barred, hair-brown 
and white. ‘Tail consisting of sixteen feathers ; the two 
centre ones black for two-thirds of their length ; the re- 
maining part of a bright chestnut-brown colour, with a 
narrow black bar near the tip, which is itself reddish- 
white ; and the outer feathers: white, barred with hair- 
brown. Upper tail:coverts yellowish-brown, barred 
with black. Legs yellowish-grey, tinged with brown. 
SABINE’S SNIPE. 
Scotopax Sapint, Vigors. 
PLATE XXIV. Fie. 1. 
Scolopax. Sabini, Vigors in Trans. of Linnean Society, vol. xiv. 556.—Jar- 
dine‘and Selby’s Illus. of Ornith. vol: i. pl. 27.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 105. 
sp. 147. . 
Sabine’s Snipe, Vigors, &c. as above. 
TS recent addition to the list of British birds, was first 
recognised by Mr Vicors, and described by him under its 
present title in the fourteenth volume of the Transactions of 
the Dinnéan Society, from an individual killed in Queen’s 
County, Trelarid, ‘in August* 1822, and which, fortunately 
for science, was sefit.to him on the same day that it was shot, 
as presefiting a remarkable deviation from the usual plumage 
of the common species. This specimen now enriches the col- 
lection of the Zoological Society in London, having been 
presented to it by Mr Vicors, together with a numerous 
and very valuable assortment of other birds. ‘A second in- 
stance afterwards occurred, in that of a female (agreeing in 
every respect as to plumage and general proportion with the 
bird first described) which was shot on the banks of the 
