, NODDING SNIPE, AND GRliAT GODWIT. 465 



with black and white : breaft mottled with brown and white : belly 

 white : legs and toes like the former. Its Size the fame. — Bl. Mus. 



Inhabits the fame pi ace^ . Place. 



CN. With the bill very (lender^ long, and black : the crown, and 37°' Nod3ing. 



upper part of the back, duUcy, ftreaked with red : cheeks cine- 

 reous, flreaked with black : neck and breaft cinereous, mixed with 

 ruft-color, and marked obfcurely with dark fpots : belly white : 

 thighs fpotted with black : lelTer coverts of wings afh-coloredj, greater 

 duflcy, edged with brown : primaries and fecondaries duflcy ; the • 

 laft tipt with white: lower part of. the back white, fpotted with 

 black : tail barred with black and white ; tips reddifh : legs 

 greenifh : the toes bordered by a narrow plain membrane. Size of 

 the Englip Snipe. 



ObTerved in Chateaux Bay, on the coaft of Labrador, in September. Place; 



Are perpetually nodding their heads. — Latbar/i, iii. 



Ednv, 137. — Scolopax Fedoa, Lin. SjJ}. 244. — La Barge rouffe de Baie de 37!. Great 

 Hudfon, De Buffon, vii. 507. — Latham, \\u — Lev. Mus. Gobwit. 



CN. With bill fix inches long: throat white : from the bill to the 

 eye extends a dufky line : head and neck mottled with dufky 

 and light brown :- breaft barred with black : belly plain brown : 

 back and coverts varied with rufty brown and dufl<y : the prima- 

 ries and fecondaries ferruginous on their exterior webs : tail barred 

 v/ith light brown and black : legs very long, black, and naked 

 very high above the knees. 

 Inhabits Hudforis Bay and ConmiIicut.~~BL. Mus. Placs. 



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