464 JACK, RED-BREASTED, AND BROWN SNIPE. 



f'-ACB. Inhabits Europe as far as Iceland : extends even to Greenland * ;- 



and common in all parts of RuJJia and Sibiria. Is found all over 

 North America, and fwarms in South Carolina. The lines on the 

 head are lefs diftinfl in the American kind : the bill is alfo Ihorter 

 than that of the Englijh. 



367. Jack. Br.ZooL ii. N° 189. — Petite BecaffinCj ou le Sourde, De Bi/ffo!i,.\n, 490* 



— Latham, iii. —Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



QN. With crown of the head black, tinged with ruft: a yellow 

 ftroke over each eye : neck mottled with white, brown, and 

 teftaceous : rump of a glofly purplifli blue : tail brown, edged with' 

 tawny. Weight under two ounces. 

 Place. Thefe two inhabit Europe, North America, and Sihiria. 



368. Red-ereast- on. With a bill like the common kind, two inches one-eighth- 

 . ' long : head, neck, and fcapulars, varied with black, afh-color,- 



and red : under fide of the neck and breaft ferruginous, thinly fpot- 

 ted with black : coverts and fecondaries dark cinereous j the lad tipt 

 with white : back and rump white, concealed by the fcapulars : taii^ 

 barred with dufky and white : legs dark green : middle and out- 

 mod toe connefted by a fmall web. Size of the Englijh Snipe. 

 Placs. Inhabits the coaft of New York. — Latham, iii. — Bl. Mus. 



369. Brown. CN. With a bill like the former : from that to each eye a white 



bar : head, neck, and fcapulars, of a fine uniform cinereous 



brown, in a very few places marked with black : coverts and prir 



maries dark brown ; Ihaft of the firft primary white : fecondaries 



light brown, edged with white : back white : rump and tail barred 



• Faun, Greenl. N° 71. 



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