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WOODCOCK SNIPE. Class IL 



1. Wood- 

 cock. 



GENUS V. SNIPE. 



Bill long, slender, weak, and strait. 

 Nostrils linear, lodged in a furrow 

 Tongue pointed, slender. 

 Toes divided, back toe very small. 



Scolopax Rasticola. Sc. casta- 

 neo nigro griseoque varia, 

 subtus rufescens fasciolis ni- 

 gris, fascia capitis nigra, fa- 

 moribus tectis. Lath. Ind. 

 orn. 713. id. Si/n.\. 12Q. 



La Beccasse. Belon av. 272. 



Rusticola, seu Perdix rustica 

 major (Grosser schnepff). 

 Gesner av. 501. 



Aldr. av. iii. 182. 



TFil. 07-71. 289. 



Itaii Syn. av. 104. 



La Becasse. Brisson av. v. 

 292. Hist, d'ois. vii. 402. 

 PI. Enl. 885. 



Beccaccia, Acceggia. Zinan. 



101. 

 Schniffa. Scopoli, No. 134. 

 Wald schnepf. Kram. 351. 



Frisch, ii. 226.foem. 22". 

 Scolopax rusticola. G-m. Lin. 



660. 

 Morkulla. Faun. Suec. sp. 



170. 

 Norvegis Blom-Rokke, Rutte, 



quihusdam Krog-quist. Da- 



nis Holt Sneppe. Brunnich, 



164. 

 Fauna Scotica. No. 142. 

 Br. Zool. 119. Arct. Zoo], ii. 



174. 



XHESE birds, during summer, are inhabi- 

 tants of the Alps,''' of Norway, Sxveden^ Polish 

 Pmissia, the march of Brandenhu7'g,-\ and the 

 northern parts of Europe : they all retire from 



* JVil. orn. eqo. 



f Frisch, ii. 226. 



