SNIPE. 137 



and a half long, and black : crown of the head black, tinged 

 with ruft-colour : over each eye a yellow ftreak : neck varied 

 with white, brown, and pale red : fcapulars narrow, long, and of 

 a brown colour, margined with yellow : the rump of a glofly 

 blueifh purple : belly and vent white : greater quills dufky : 

 tail brown, with tawny edges, and confifts of twelve feathers: 

 legs cinereous green. 



This fpecies is either lefs common than the former, or not fo p LACE a V » 

 well afcertained by the different voyagers ; as I cannot trace it Manners. 

 more fouth than Aleppo, where it is not uncommon *, and to the 

 north as far as lat. 80. 27 -f\ It is found both in Europe and 

 North America. I fufpect likewife, from a paflage in Fermin $■> 

 that it inhabits Surinam. The manners are much like thofe of 

 the laft fpecies. 



* RuffelMp. p. 65. 



t Phypps mentions a low flat ifle off Waygats, which " abounds with a fmall 

 Snipe, fimilar to the Jack Snipe in England." See Toy. p. 53. 



\ Hiji. Surin. vol. ii. p. 189, 190. — He there talks of a large and a fmall 

 Snipe : the firft is rufous, black, and afh-colour, mixed : bread: and belly a(h- 

 colour : it is fmaller than the Partridge, and flies flowly, but runs quick. The 

 fmall one he defcribes much like ours ; and fays, they are feen by thoufands on 

 the fea Jhores ; that it mult be a bad markfman that does not kill fixty at once* 

 with fine fhot ; and that he has killed eighty-five with a fingle charge. The 

 fiefli of both is accounted very delicate; but the laft is fo fmall that a man maj 

 fefely eat twenty at a sieal. . 



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