SNIPE, 



»19 



Scolopax rufticola, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 243. 6. — Faun. Suec. 170. — Scop. Ann. 1. 



N° 134. — Bran. N° 164. — Mutter, p. ly—Kram. El. p. $$\>—Frifcb. 1. 



pi. 226. zzj.-Gtargi *„/,, p. . , 7 x. «- WOODCOCK. 



La Becafle, i?/-;/. Or». v. p. 292. 1. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 462. pi. 25. — PL 



Enl. 885. 

 Woodcock, Rail Syn. p. 104. A. I. — Will. Orn. p. 289. pi. 53. — Borlaf. 



Cornw.p. 245. pi. 24. fig. 12. — Albin, i. pi. '/o.—Br. Zool. ii. N° 178. 



pi. 65. — -^r#. Zi?o/. p. 470. 



Br. Ma/. Lev. Muf. 



J ENGTH fifteen inches. Bill three inches ; the upper man- Description. 



dible hangs over the lower : noftrils placed at the bafe ; 

 from thence is a furrow the whole length of the bill : forehead 

 cinereous : from the bill to the eyes a line of black : crown of 

 the head, and the upper parts. of the neck, back, and wing co- 

 verts, mixed and barred with ferruginous, black, and grey ; 

 crown of the head darkeft : the under eyelid white : the chin pale 

 afh-colour : fore part of the neck yellowifh, marked with dufky 

 minute dafhes : the under parts of the body dufky white, barred 

 with numerous dufky lines : quills dufky, marked on the outer 

 web with triangular rufous fpots, and the fame on the inner 

 web clofe to the fhaft : tail rounded, tipped with afh-colour, 

 and rufous on the outer web : legs pale flefh-coloured brown. 



This bird inhabits England during the winter feafon, coming p 1ACE and 

 in with the Redwings : thofe which are with us during that time, Manners. 

 fuppofed to come from Sweden, their appearance and difappear- 

 ance from thence coinciding : about the beginning of OSfober 

 they are firft feen, but continue coming till December: do not 

 come in flights, but fingly, or at raoft two together, and chiefly 



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