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SNIPE. 



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Scolopax Capenfis, Lin. Syfi. i. p, 246. 14. 

 CAPE SN, La Becaffine du Cap de B. Efperance, Brif. Orit. App. p. 14!. pi. 6.—Buf, 



Oif. vii. p. 494. — Pi. Enl. 270. 



Description,. OIZE of our Snipe : length ten inches. Bill one inch and three- 

 quarters ■, colour of it reddiih brown : the crown of the head 

 is afh-colour, croffed with ftreaks of black : down the middle is 

 a pale band from the bafe of the bill to the hind head : round the 

 eyes white, ending in a ftreak behind : the under part is bounded 

 by a black line ; the reft of the head and neck rufous : at the top 

 of the bread a narrow band of black; from this all the under 

 parts are dufky white : the upper part of the body, wings, and 

 tail, are afh-colour, tranfverfely waved and crofled with black •,. 

 trioft regular on the wing coverts, each feather of which is 

 marked with four or five yellowilh bars on the inner web, and as 

 many round fpots of the fame on the outer : the tail feathers • 

 are alfo marked in the fame manner; the four middle feathers- 

 having bars of the yellowilh colour, and the four outer ones on 

 each fide fpots, as in the quills : the inner edge of the wing, in 

 the courfe of the fcapulars, ftreaked with white : . legs dufky. 

 Place. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope* 



, 9 "„ 'TPHE top of the head, throat, and fore part of the neck, are 



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rurous chelnut: chin almoft white: the eye furrounded with 

 ' black, and placed in a large bed of white, pointing to the hind 



head ; the reft of the head, neck, and breaft, black : the back s , 

 rump, wing coverts, and fecond quills, dark olive green, ele- 

 gantly mottled and barred with dufky : fcapulars white : the two 

 7 middle 



