:%pS SNIPE. 



browtij more or lefs ftreaked and fpotted with rufous white : between 

 the bill and eye, alfo the chin, white : on the back the marks are 

 pale rufous, and pretty numerous, arifing from each feather having 

 five or fix tranfverfe bars of that colour on the margins : the wing 

 coverts have lefs brown in them, appearing at a diftance fcarcely 

 marked with it : the quills are rufous cream-colour, dotted with 

 minute fpecks of brown ; the four firft have the outer webs and' 

 ends of a dufky black ; the Ihaft of the outmoft one white : un- 

 der wing coverts pale rufous : the bread and fides are of this lafi: 

 colour, but much paler, and tranfverfely barred with dufky waved 

 lines, broadeft on the fides : the middle of the belly and thighs 

 plain : vent nearly white : tail rufous, crofled v/ith fix or kven 

 bars of brown on each feather ; the three outer ones quite irregu- 

 lar ; the two middle ones paleft : legs black, and bare for an inch 

 and a quarter above the knee. 

 Place. Inhabits Hudfon's Bay. Given to me by Mr. Hutchins. 



34- 

 4-HUDSONIAN f ENGTH feventeen inches. Bill three inches long, turning 



upwards ; the bafe half pale, the reft black : top of the head 



blackifh, fpotted or ftreaked with duflcy white : fides of the head 



and back part of the neck much the fame : lore duflcy : over the 



eyes, from the bill, a white ftreak : chin nearly white : back and 



fcapulars dufky brown, fpotted with rufous white, one fpot being 



placed on each fide of the (hafc, for the moft part, though in the 



large feathers two : wing coverts brown, fome of the middle ones 



mixed with paler, with the addition of fome white fpots ; larger 



> coverts plain afii-colour : quills black, the fliafts white ; the bafe 



of all, from the fourth, white to about one third of their length : 



rump. 



