SPOTTED AND J A D R E K A S N I P E. 4§7 



jSr. 2o(?/. ii. N" i86.— PW. TVab/: Ixii. 410. — i«/,Ja««, iii.— Bi.. Mus. 374.. Spotted. 



CN= With a very Gender bill, a little more than two inches long: 

 orbits, chin, and throat, white: from bill to eye a line of white : 

 cheeks and under fide of the neck white, with fhort ftreaks of a 

 dufl<y color : crown and upper part of the neck brown, with white 

 ftreaks : coverts of the wings, primaries, fecondaries, and fcapulars, 

 black, with elegant triangular fpots of white: tail barred with black 

 and white : breafl: and belly white : legs long j and in the live bird 

 of a rich yellow j fometimes red. Length, to the tip of the tail, 

 near fixteen inches. 



Arrives in //^i^wzV 5^j in fpring. Feeds on fmall fliell-fifli and Place. 



worms J and frequents the banks of rivers. Called there, by the natives, 

 from its noife, Sa-fa-Jhew ; by the EngUJh, Tellow legs. Retires in 

 autumn. Makes a ftop in the province of New York, on its return, 

 but does not winter there. This, and feveral other fpecies of Snipes 

 and Sandpipers, are called, in North America, Humilities. 



Leffer Godwit, Br.Zool.u. N° 188, — La Barge commune, D*5»^», vii. 500, 375. Jadres 



— PL Enl. 874. — Latham, iii. 

 Scolopax Limofa, F«a«. 5wf N" 172. 

 jaAieki, Olaf. Iceland, ii. 201. tab. xlvili. 



CN. With a bill near four inches long: head and neck cinereous: 

 cheek and chin white : back of an uniform brown : wings mark- 

 ed with a white line : rump and vent feathers white : middle fea- 

 thers of the tail black; in the reft the white predominates more and 

 more, to the outmoft: legs dufky. Weight nine ounces. Length, 

 to the tail, feventeen inches. 



\n\Y2L\Ais Iceland, Greenland*, and Sweden. Migrates in flocks in Placs 



the fouth of RuJ/ia, 



* Faux. Groenl, N° 72. 



3 O 1 SN, 



