54 JADREKA SNIPE. Class II. 



inches ; to the toes twenty-one ; its breadth 

 twenty-eight. The bill like that of the former ; 

 the chin white, tinged with red ; the neck ash- 

 colored; the head of a deep ash -color, whitish 

 about the eye ; the back of an uniform brownness, 

 not spotted like that of the preceding; the rump 

 encompassed with a white ring; the two middle 

 feathers of the tail black; the outmost, espe- 

 cially on the outside web, white almost to the 

 tips ; in the rest the white part grows less and 

 kss to the middlemost. 



Besides these, Mr. fVillughby mentions a 

 third species, called in Cornwall, the Stone Cur- 

 lew'^; but describes it no farther than saying it 

 has a shorter and slenderer bill than the preced- 



* The Stone Curlew is a name given in some parts of Eng^ 

 land to the Whimbrel. A species of snipe vmder that denomi- 

 nation is described by Mr. Pennant^ in the Arctic Zoology, vol. 

 \\. p. 171ji as an inhabitant of Chateaux Bay, in North America. 



Ed. 



