134 



SNIPE, 



CAYENNE SN. 

 Description. 



Place. 



T ENGTH thirteen inches. Bill ftrait, flout, a trifle bent at 

 the end ; colour dufky, reddifh at the bafe : plumage on 

 the upper part of the body pale cinereous brown, mottled with 

 pale buff-colour: greater wing coverts dirty white ; fomeofthe 

 outer ones edged with brown : bafe of the quills white, the reft 

 of their length brown, and fome of the inner ones white at 

 the tips : baftard wing brown : under wing coverts mottled 

 dufky and white : all the under part of the neck and body white; 

 but the fore part of the firft a little mottled with dufky : rump 

 white : tail the fame as the reft of the upper parts, barred and 

 tipped with dufky : legs brown, 

 Inhabits Cayenne. 



COMMON 

 SNIPE. 



Description. 



Scolopax Gallinago, Lin. SyJ}. i. p. 244. 7. — Faun. Suec. 173.— SVa/. Ann. i. 



138. — Brim. 160. 161. — Midler, p. 23. — Kram. El. p. 352. — Frifch. 



pi. 229. — Georgi Reife, 1S2. 

 La Becaffine, BriJ. Orn. v. p. 298. 2. pi. 26. fig. i.—Buf. Oif. vii. p. 483. 



pi. 26.— PL Enl. 883. 

 Snipe or Snite, Raii.Syn. p. 105. A. 2. — Will. Orn. p. 290. pi. 53. — Alhin, 



i. pi. j 1.— Br. Zool. ii, p- 187. pi. 6Z.—ArSi. Zool. N° 366. 

 Br. Mi//. Le-v. Muf. 



'EIGHT four ounces: length near twelve inches. Bill 

 three inches long, colour dufky ; flat at the end, and 

 rough : the head is divided by two black lines lengthwife, and 

 three of red ; one of the laft pafling down the middle of the 

 head, and one above each eye : between the bill and eye is a 

 dufky line: chin white : neck varied with brown and red : the 

 fcapulars are beautifully marked with black and yellow : quills 



dufky ; 



