SNIPE, 133 



This inhabits the mo\Q: Javannas of Cayenne; in the rainy fea- Place and 

 fon moves into the higheft fituation to breed. It makes the neft 

 on fome rifing ground, choofing a cavity, and lining it with 

 dried leaves : lays two eggs ; and makes two nefts in a year, the 

 late in July : does not fancy the woods, like that of Europe, but 

 the marfhes only, like the Snipe. 



The flefli of thefe thought to be as good as the European 

 fpecies. 



Scolopax media, Frifcb. t. 228. 4- 



Great Snipe, Br. Zool. ii. N" iM.—ArB. Zool. p. 4 7°- B. GREAT SNIPE. 



Lev. Muf. 



C I Z E between the Woodcock and Snipe : weight eight ounces : Description. 



length fixteen inches. Bill four inches long, and like that of 

 the Woodcock : crown of the head black, divided down the mid- 

 dle by a pale ftripe : over and beneath each eye another of the 

 fame : the upper parts of the body very like the common Snipe : 

 beneath white : the feathers edged with dufky black on the 

 neck, breaft, and fides ; and thofe of the belly fpotted with the 

 fame, but the middle of it is plain white : quills dufky : tail 

 reddifh, the two middle feathers plain, the others barred with 

 black : legs black. 



This is a rare fpecies: a fine fpecimen of it has been fhot in Place. 



Lancaftire, now in the Leverian Mufeum : faid alfo to have been 

 met with in Kent. It is found likewife in Germany, and inhabits 

 the Artlic region of Sibiria. I once faw this among a parcel of 

 birds from Cayenne, and have no reafon to fuppofe otherwife than 

 that it came from that part. 



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