47© EUROPEAN WOODCOCK, AND GREAT SNIPE. 



^. EUROPEAN WooneocK, Br, Zool. ii. N* 178.— Le Beoaffe, De Buffon, 711.462.— 

 Pl,Enl.%%i^, — Latham, n\. 

 Scolopax rufticola. MorkuUa, Faun, Saec- N" r/o.— Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



CN. "With a reddifh cinereous front : hind part of the head barred 

 with reddilh brown : "pper part of the body and wings barred 

 with ruft-color, black, and grey : bread and belly dirty white, 

 barred with dufky lines. Weight twelve ounces. 

 Flacs. Inhabits, during fummer, Scandinavia, Lapland, and Iceland. Mi- 



grates foutherly at approach of winter. Common in Ruffia and Sibi~ 

 ria, but only in the time of migration ; and breeds in the northern 

 marfhes and j^r^ic flats. 



B, Great Snipe, Br, Zool. ii. N» 188. — Latham, iii. 

 Scolopax Media, Fri/cb. tab. 228. — Lev. Mus. 



CN. With head divided lengthways by a teflaceous line, bounded 

 on each fide by one of black ; above and beneath each eye an- 

 other: neck and breaft yellowifli white, marked with femicircular 

 fpots of black : fides undulated with black : back and coverts tefla- 

 ceous, fpotted with black, and edged with white : primaries dufliy: 

 tail ruft-color I external feathers barred with black. Weight eight 

 , ounces. 

 ^^^ct. Inhabits the JrSiic regions of Sibiria. Found in England and Ger^ 



many. The link between the Woodcock and Snipe, 



a . C= DwsKY 



