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It appears that M. Vieillot reserves the name 

 Scolopas to this division, at least, if, as I believe, his 

 241st plate represents this bird ; but it is not very 

 exact. Dr. Leach makes of it his genus Macro- 



RAMPHUS. 



First figured in Montague, Om. Diet. Supl. Shaw 

 Zool. xii, t. 9. the summer plumage is the Red- 

 breasted Snipe of Pennant, and Totanus Novehora- 

 censis. Sabine. The Scolopax LeucophceUf Vieillot. 

 Gal. t. 24. is the same bird. 



Rhynch^ea. Cuv. 



Birds of Africa and the East Indies, whose two man- 

 dibles, nearly equal, are slightly arched at the point, 

 and the furrows of the nostrils prevail as far as the 

 extremity of the upper mandible, which has no single 

 furrow. The toes are not palmated. To the port 

 of the snipes, they unite the most lively colours, and 

 are particularly remarkable for the eye-like spots on 

 the quills of the wings and tail. 



Different mixtures of colour are known amons: 

 them which Gmelin unites as varieties under the 

 name of Scolopax CapensiSy and which M. Tem- 

 minck refers to difference of ages. 



Cape Snipe. Scolopaw Capensis. Gml. Enl. 922. ; 

 adult, according to Cuv. ; female, Latham. 



Length, ten inches ; round the eye and a little way 

 down the neck, white ; rest of head and neck, rufous ; 

 lower part of neck and back, \mdulated with black 

 and grey ; wing-coverts, undulated black and ash- 



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