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the coverts are also tipped with a white spot ; a broad band of white 

 down the middle of the back, the lateral tail-feathers are white, with 

 two bars of black toward the end, and the base of the inner web of the 

 same colour ; the next feather is similar with more black at the base, 

 and on both webs ; the next black, with the terminal half of the outer 

 web, a bar on the inner, and its tip white ; the lower surface is white, 

 but much soiled and of a dull greyish-brown tint, the lower tail-coverts 

 with a slightly dusky spot toward the end. 



Length to end of tail 6 y% inches ; bill along the ridge || ; wing from 

 flexure 3i§ ; tail 2|. 



Between this and P. puhescens there is no difference as to colour, 

 only the spots on the wings of the latter are much larger. Most indi- 

 viduals of P. pubescens have the same number of spots on the longer 

 quills, but others have an additional pair. 



DRUMMOND'S SNIPE. 



ScoLOPAX Drummondii, Swains. 



ScoLOPAx Drummondii, Dhummokd's Snipe, Richards, and Sicains. Fauna Bo- 

 reali-Americana, vol. ii. p. 400. 



" This Snipe," according to Dr Richaedson, whose account of it 

 I copy, "is common in the Fur Countries up to latitude 65°, and is also 

 found in the recesses of the Rocky Mountains. Its manners are in all 

 respects similar to those of the European Snipes. It is intermediate 

 in size between the Sc. major and gallinago ; it has a much longer bill 

 than the latter, and two more tail-feathers. Its head is divided by a 

 pale central stripe, as in Sc. gallinida and Tnajor ; its dorsal plumage 

 more distinctly striped than that of the latter ; and the outer tail-fea- 

 ther is a quarter of an inch shorter than that of JS. Douglassi. 



" Description of a specimen killed on the Rocky Moimtains. Co- 

 lour : — Dorsal plumage and wings mostly brownish-black ; the top of 

 the head, scapulars, interscapulars, intermediate coverts, posterior 



