62 GHEAT SNIPE. Class II. 



the chin is white; the neck is varied with 

 brown and red. The scapulars are beau- 

 tifully striped lengthways with black and yel- 

 low ; the quil feathers are dusky, but the 

 edge of the first is white, as are the tips 

 of the secondary feathers ; the quil feathers 

 next the back are barred with black and 

 pale red ; the breast and belly are white ; the 

 coverts of the tail are long, and almost cover 

 it; they are of a reddish brown color. The 

 tail consists of fourteen feathers j black on 

 their lower part, then crossed with a broad bar 

 of deep orange, another narrow one of black, 

 , - and the ends white, or pale orange. The vent 

 feathers are of a dull yellow ; the legs pale 

 green ; the toes divided to their origin. 



11. Great. Scolopax major. Sc. nigroma- Ind. orn. 714. id. Syn, v. 



, culata supra testacea subtus 133. 



albida, lineaverticistestacea, Gm. Lin. 663. 



altera utrinque nigra. Lath. Arci. Zool. ii. \75. 



XHIS species is rarely found in England.^ 

 A fine specimen, shot in Lancashire, was pre- 



* I have known this species to be killed in England, six or 

 eight times, and it is probably met with oftener than is imagined, 

 as sportsmen talk of killing snipes occasionally of an extraordi- 

 nary size. J. L. 



