Class IL SPOTTED SNIPE. 59 



of a cinereous brown ; the lesser coverts of the 

 wings brown edged with dull white, and barred 

 with black ; the primaries dusky, whitish on 

 their inner sides ; the secondaries barred with 

 dusky and white ; the under side of the neck 

 and breast of a dirty white ; the belly and vent 

 white ; the tail barred with cinereous and black ; 

 the legs of an orange red. 



Scolopax. Totanus. Sc. nigri- Le chevalier rouge. Belon av. 9. Spotted. 



cans maculis albis subtus al- 207- 



ba, pectore lineolis rectrici- Aldr. av. iii. I7I. 



bus lateralibus fasciis ni- Rail Syn. av. IO6. 



gricantibus, pedibus rubris. Le Chevalier rouge. Brisson 



Lath. Lid. orn. 721. id. av. v. 1Q2. 



Syn.v.liS. The other Totano. Wll. orn. 



Cm. Lin. 665. 2Qg. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 17O. 



J- HIS species we found in the collection of 

 Taylor White., Esq. In size it is equal to the Descrip- 

 greenshank; the head is of a pale ash color, 

 marked with oblong streaks of black ; the back 

 dusky, varied with triangular spots of white; 

 the coverts of the wings ash colored, spotted in 

 tiie same manner ; the quil feathers dusky ; the 

 breast, belly, and thighs white, the first thinly 

 spotted with black ; the middle feathers of the 

 tail are ash colored ; the side feathers are whit- 



