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The legs and feet are very well coloured, but the colouration 

 varies much and is often just as distinctly greenish as they are 

 here shewn bluish. 



The attitudes of the birds in this plate and that of the Solitary 

 Snipe show well the characteristics of the two species ; the active, 

 •quick moving character of the Solitary Snipe, as compared with the 

 heavy, slow disposition of the Wood Snipe. 



