SNIP E. 1 ' i 4 r 



£a Beecafine de Madraft, Br!/. Om. v. p.. 308. 4. — Baf. Qif. vii. p. 496. JO , 



Partridge Snipe, Raii.Syn. p. 193. pi. 1. fig. 2. MADRAS SN. 



*"iPHIS has a pale rufous bill : the upper parts mixed with ful- Description. 



vous and blackifh :. down the middle of the crown a black- 

 ilh brown ftripe ; and on each fide of the head, behind the eye, 

 another : on the back are two black brown bands : the throat 

 and fore part of the neck fulvous, marked with blackifh fpots : 

 the reft of the under parts white, except a band of black acrofa 

 the breaft : the quills and tail are variegated with black, ful- 

 vous, and grey : the hind toe of equal length with the fore ones. 



Inhabits Madras-.. Placs- 



La Beccaffine blanche des Indes, Son. Voy. lnd. vol. ii. p. 2i8» 



11. 



WHITE INDIAN. 



ESS than ours. Bill black: the head white, tinged with 



to Description 



very pale dirty grey : through the eye a grey ftreak, reach- 

 ing almoft to the hind head :. a little beneath the eye is another 

 of the fame colour : throat white: neck and breaft dirty white, 

 marked with fpots and longitudinal ftreaks of dirty grey : the 

 back, rump, wing coverts, fecondaries, and tail, dirty grey, 

 crofted with waved bands of the colour of umber: the lefler wing 

 coverts are almoft white on the outer web •, and the greater ones- 

 deep dirty grey : the belly and vent are white : the fides of die 

 belly crofted with pale dirty grey bands : legs black. 



Inhabits India. Pjlacz, 



Seolopax 



