463 NODDING, REDSHANK, &c. SNIPE. 



376. Stone. CN. With a black bill : head, neck, and breaft, fpotted with black 

 and white : back, fcapulars, and greater coverts, of the fame 

 colors : primaries dullcy : rump and tail barred with black and white; 

 belly white : legs long and yellow. _ Double the Size of a Snipe. 

 Place. Obferved in autumn feeding on the fands on the lower part of 



Chateaux Bay, continually nodding their heads. .Are called there 

 ^.tone Curlems. ' - . 



377. Redshank. Br. Zool. ii. N° 184. — Scolopax Tetanus, Faun. Suec. N" 167. — Latham, iii. 



Le Chevalier aux pieds rouges, De Buffon, vii. 513. — PL Enl. 845. — Lev« 

 Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



JN. With bill red at the bafe, black at the end ; head, hind pars 

 of neck, and fcapulars,, of a dufky afh-color, faintly marked with 

 black : back white, fprinkled with black : under fide of neck white, 

 ftreaked with dufl-iy ; breaft and belly white : tail barred with black 

 and white: legs of a bright orange-color.. 

 Place. Inhabits North Americay in common with the north of Europe, as 



high as Finmark *; and is found in Sibiria. Grows lefs commoa 

 towards the north of that country. Is foraetimes found, in Hudfon'i 

 Bay, quite white \^ 



378. Yellow- ON. With a flend-er black bill, an inch and a half long,, a little 

 ^"^'^"^' bent at the end : head, hind part of the neck, back, and great- 



er coverts of the wings, dirty white, fpotted with black : leffer co.- 

 verts plain brown : primaries dufky : breafl: and fore part of the neck 

 fpotted with black and white: belly and coverts of the tail pure 

 white : tail barred with brown and white : legs yellow. Length, 

 from tip of the bill to the tail, eleven inches. 

 Appears in the province oi New Tork in autunan. — Bl. Mus., 



FlacIv 



• Leems, 253- i Ed-w. Jjg. 



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