SNIPE. GRALLATORES. SCOLOPAX. 12: 
wt 
fore part of the neck is a streak composed of umber- 
brown spots. Lower part of the neck and breast pale 
yellowish-brown, with a grey tinge, spotted and barred 
with dusky or blackish-brown. Abdomen and thighs 
pure white. Flanks barred with deep hair-brown. 
Back and scapulars velvet-black, with a purplish or 
bronzed reflection, barred with pale chestnut-brown, 
and having the outer webs of the feathers deeply edged 
with cream-yellow. Wing-coverts hair-brown, barred. 
with pale chestnut-brown, and tipped with reddish- 
white. Quills black; the first having its outer web 
nearly white. Tail consisting of fourteen feathers, 
black for two-thirds of their length ; the rest being red- 
dish-brown with a black bar, and with reddish-white 
tips. Upper tail-coverts yellowish-brown, barred with 
hair-brown. Legs and feet deep ash-grey, or lead-co- 
loured. 
The plumage of both sexes is similar, but the female ge- 
nerally exceeds the male bird in size. 
JACK SNIPE. 
Scotopax GALLINULA. 
PLATE XXIII. Fig. 5. 
Scolopax Gallinula, Linn. Syst. 1. 244. 8@.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 662.—Lath. Ind 
Orn. 2. 715. sp. 8.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 106. sp. 149. 
Gallinago minima, Rati Syn. 105. A. 3.— Will. 314.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 
ei. 
Gallinago minor, Briss. Orn. 5. 303. 3. 26. f. 2. 
La Petite Bécassine, Buff. Ois. 7. 490. 
Bécassine sourde, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 678. 
Moorschneppe, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. p. 196.—Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 
2. 364. f 
Jack Snipe, Gid, or Judcock, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. No. 189. t. 68.—Arct. 
Zool. 2. 367.—Will. (Angl.) 291.—Albin’s Br. Birds, 3. t. 81.—Lath. 
Syn. 5. 136. 8.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. 2.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. 73.— 
Shaw’s Zool. 12. 57.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 106. sp. 149. 
Tuis is the smallest species of true Scolopax hitherto dis- 
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