136 



SNIPE. 



oblong, of a dirty olive-colour, marked with dufky fpots. When 

 difturbed, in the breeding feafon, foars to a vaft height, making 

 a lingular bleating kind of noife ; and when they defcend, dart 

 down with vaft rapidity. The male alfo (while his mate fits on 

 the eggs) often poifes himfelf on his wings, making fometimes a 

 whittling, and fometimes a drumming noife*. They feed on 

 fmall worms, and other infefts, which they find in the moift 

 ground ; as alfo on fmall fnails ; having found the laft whole 

 in the ftomachs of both this and the next fpecies. They are 

 drefled without exenterating, as the Woodcock, and are accounted 

 delicate. 



FINMARK SN. 

 Description; 



Pl, 



Scolopax gallinaria, Midler, p. 23. N° 183. 

 Finmark Snipe, Arc!. Zool. p. 471. D. 



\7"ERY like the common Snipe, and the bill tuberculated in 

 the fame manner; but differs in the head being entirely 

 grey : legs yellow. 

 Inhabits Finmark. 



+• JACK SNIPE. 



Scclopax Gallinula, Lin. Syji. i. p. 244. 8. — Scop. Ann.'\. N° i^g.—Brun. 



p. 163. — Mullet; p. 23. N° 189. — Fri/cb. t. 231. 

 La petite BecaiTme, Brif. On. v. p. 303. 3. pi. 26. fig. z.-^Buf. Oif. vii. 



p. 450.— PL Enl. 884. 

 Gid, Jack Snipe, or Judcock, Rail Syn. p. 105. A. 3. — Will. Orn. p. zgl. 



—All/in, iii. pi. 86.— Br. Zool. ii. N° 189. pi. 68.— Aril. Zool. N° 367. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. Hp H I S is half as big as the former, and weighs fcarce two 

 ounces : length eight inches and a half. Bill above an inch 



Br. Zool. 



and 



