LITTLE WOODCOCK AND COMMON SNIPE. 463 



XXXVII. SNIPE. Gen. Birds, LXVIL 



SN. With the upper mandible of the bill two inches and a half 365. Little 

 long; the lower much fhorter : forehead cinereous ; hind part Woodcock^ 

 black, with four tranfverfe yellowifli bars : from bill to the eye a 

 dufky line : chin white : under fide of the neck, breaft, Ibelly, and 

 thighs, of a dull yellow, paleft on the belly : hind part of the neck 

 black, edged with yellowifh red : back, and lefler coverts, of the 

 fame colors ; reft of the coverts marked with zigzags of black and 

 dull red : primaries dufky : inner coverts ruft-colored : tail black, 

 tipped with brown : legs fhort, pale brown. Length, from tip of 

 the bill to the end of the tail, eleven inches and a half. 



This fpecieshas entirely the form of the European^ oodcoc]ii ; but Place. 



differs in fize and color. They appear in the province of New York 

 in the latter end o^ April, or beginning of May. They lay, the latter 

 end of the laft month or beginning oijune, from eight to ten eggs ? 

 and ufually in fwampy places. Mr. Lawjon * found them in Caro- 

 lina in September. He prefers them, in point of delicacy, to the 

 European kind. — Latham, iii. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus, 



Br. Zool. ii. N" 187. — Scolopax gallinago, Horfgjok, Faa«. 5»«. N" 173. — ■ 366. Common 



Latham, ii!.' S'''"' 



LaBecaffine, De Buffon, vii. ^S^.—Pl.Enl. 883.— Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



CN. With head divided lengthways with two black lines, and three 

 of reddifti brown : throat white : neck mottled with brown and 

 teftaceous: ridge of the wing dufky: greater coverts and primaries 

 duflcy, tipt with white : belly white ; lower half of the tail black ; 

 upper orange, with two dufky ftripes ; toes divided to the origin. 

 The American is lefler than the Britijh. 



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