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middle tail feathers like the back ; the others, and greater quills, 

 dufky black, marked with large orange fpots, five or fix on each 

 feather : belly, thighs, and vent, white : bill and legs pale brown. 

 The defcription and figure of this variety is taken from a 

 painting by the late Mr. Edwards, now in my pofleffion. 



La Becaffine de la Chine, Buf. Oif. vii, p. 495. — PI. Enl. 881. o. 



Var. S. 

 CMALLER than the common Snipe : length ten inches. Bill Description.. 



yellow, with a dufky tip: top of the head brown, mixed with 

 black : down the middle of the crown, and over each eye, a ftripe 

 of white : the chin white : the reft of the head and neck mixed 

 grey and pale brown : the fore part of the neck is ftreaked per- 

 pendicularly j and the back part, and all round the bottom, tranf- 

 verfely : the upper part of the body and wings delicately mixed 

 and waved with blueifh grey, brown, pale rufous, and black : 

 breaft and under parts white : quills dufky, marked with oval 

 cream-coloured fpots : tail blue grey and dufky mixed, with 

 three or four roundifh cream-coloured fpots on each feather, fur- 

 rounded with black : legs grey. 

 Inhabits China. 



'LACE. 



SCRIPTION, 



La Becaffine de Madagafcar, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 495. «—•;>/. Enl. 922. - 



Var'. C. 



ENGTH ten inches. Bill of a brownifh red; ftrait, except p 



towards the end, where it bends a trifle downwards : round 



the eye white, pafiing a little way -down the neck on each fide ; 



above this a black ftreak : the chin white : reft of the head and 



neck rufous : the lower part of the neck and back undulated 



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