1. 
GREAT 
SN. 
Description. 
ShOUN as GPa eR 
Genus LXXIL S NiI P<E. 
Ne Great Sn yas N° 3. Courland Sn. 
2. Godwit. Var. 4. New Holland Sn. 
Scolopax paludofa, Ind. Ora. ti. p. 714. 3. 
— major, bid. 4. 
— Gallina, Sepp. Vog. 3. t. 127- 
— media, Ger. Orn. iv. p. 446. 
— atra, zbid. 450? 
Savanna Woodcock, Gez. Sym. v. p. 133. 3- 
Great Snipe, ibid. 4. 
EIGHT eight ounces and a quarter: length from the bill to 
the end of the tail twelve inches; to the end of the toes fixteen 
inches: bill two inches and three quarters *, black ; the under man- 
dible pale half way from the bafe: the top of the head brown, mottled 
with rufous; down the middle a clay coloured line; fides of the head 
pale clay colour, fpeckled with brown: through the eye, from the 
bill, a dark brown ftreak, and a paler one curving round the under 
mandible: hind part of the neck, half the back, and feapulars, cho- 
colate brown, the feathers ftreaked on the fides with clay colour, and 
barred with ferruginous; the lower part of the back brown, crofied 
with numerous greyifh white lines: tail coverts pale rufous clay co- 
lour, barred with black brown, and fo long as to cover the tail for 
two thirds of its length: the tail when fpread out is rounded at the 
end; the eight middle feathers are dufky for three fourths of the 
¥ J have feen one in which the bill was fonr inches long, and another in which it 
was more than three inches, 
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