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SNIPE. 



from the bill to the eye a dufky line : chin white : under fide of 

 the neck, breaft, belly, and thighs, of a dull yellow, paleft on 

 the belly : hind part of the neck black, edged with yellowilh 

 red : back, and lefTer coverts, the fame ; the reft of the coverts 

 marked with zigzags of black and dull red : primaries dufky : 

 inner coverts ruft-coloiired : tail black, tipped with brown : legs 

 fhort, pale brown. 

 Pf.ACE and This fpecies is American, and appears in New York at the 



Manners. enc j Q f jp r H } or beginning of May, when they lay eight or more 

 eggs, in fwampy woods : while the hen is fitting, the male of an 

 evening often flies up perpendicular to a great height, and returns 

 ftrait down to the fame fpot, and from the moment of its de- 

 fcent begins an agreeable kind of whiftle, and continues it till 

 it alights on the ground, and after flaying a little time, repeats 

 the fame for feveral times together, and this fometimes even after 

 it is dark. It lays the eggs on the ground, or fome decayed flump 

 of a tree, very clofe to it. Have been found in Carolina in September, 

 The flefh thought to be as excellent as that of the European fpecies. 



». La Becafle des Savanes, de Cayenne, PL Enl. 895. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 481. 



SAVANNA 

 WOODCOCK. »Tp H I S is one fourth lefs than the common Woodcock, but has the 



Description. bill longer in proportion ; colour of it brown : over the eye 



is a black ftripe, and between the bill and eye another: the upper 

 parts of the plumage rufous, varied with black, fomewhat in the 

 manner of our Woodcock, but more diftinc~t: the under parts are 

 dufky white, and the black marks the fame; but thofe from the 

 breaft to the vent are tranfverfe blotches, not lines, as in the Wood- 

 cock. It feems a fpecies between our great Snipe and Woodcock, 



bur, is moft allied to the latter. The legs are brown. 



This 



