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Genus LXVIII. SNIPE. 



N°33. Marbled Godwit. N" 34. Hudfonian Godwit, 



9. Cape Snipe, Gen. Sjn, v. p. 138. N° g. 



CAPE SNIPE, 



' I ^HIS Snipe is called, at the Cape, Keuvitt; as it fcreams out, 



in the duflc of the evening, in a kind of diiagreeable found, 



imitating the nan:ie it bears** ^ 



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Var. E. ' ^ 



Description. "DILL yellow, fwelling at the ends of both mandibles; the co- 

 lour yellowifh green : crown dufky : eyes large and black j 

 round each a circle of yellow feathers, pointing in a line behind ; 

 cheeks and throat white : back flaty blue, fpotted with black, and 

 bounded the whole length by a yellow line: fcapulars mofl: ele- 

 , gantly marked with narrow black lines on a blueifli ground, and 

 the feathers edged with femicircular lines of blueifh and black; 

 the reft of the wing tawny, with black femicircles, pointing the re- 

 verfe to the former : tail like the fcapulars, but marked with large 

 tawny fpots : breaft brown above, black beneath : belly, vent,, 

 and thighs, white : legs pale alh. 

 Fe-ace. Inhabits the Eajl Indies -f. 



• Hv, Sfarrman, f Lady /»z/y. 



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