156 sabine's snipe. 



dusky brown, alternately barred with pale yellow brown." The tail, which consists of 

 fourteen feathers, (Yarrell says twelve,) is black for half its length; the terminal part 

 being ferruginous, with dusky bars. Tibia, feathered to the knees; legs, dusky. 

 Total length, about eleven inches and a quarter. 



