SNIPE. 



colour : lower part of the back and rump rufous white ; the fea- 

 thers dufky down the fhafts : the upper tail coverts are barred 

 rufous, white, and brown : the lefTer wing coverts are brown, 

 fringed with white ; the greater ones plain, and of a darker brown; 

 fome of them tipped with white, forming a bar on the wing : 

 greater quills black on the outer webs, white towards the bafe 

 within: the fecondaries half white, half black : the tail of the 

 fame colours : legs black*. 



This fpecies feems to be mofl plentiful in America, being Place. 



found in numbers in the fens about Hudfon's Bay, where they 

 breed, and then retire fouthward. The natives know it by the 

 name of Pufquatijhijhue^. It now and then appears in England, 

 but is very rare*. It is however more plentiful on the continent. 

 Is found in Lapland f . Appears about the Cajpian Sea in fpringj 

 but is never feen in Sibiria, nor in the north of dfia \. It is faid 

 to be a fine-flavoured bird.. 



143 



Lev. Muf. 



13- 

 Var. A. 



A TRIPLE bigger than the laft. The bill four inches and Description* 

 a half in length, and turns much upwards ; colour dufky, 

 with the bafe reddifh, and the point nearly black : the upper 

 parts of the body plain brown:- head and neck cinereous: chin 

 nearly white: over the eye a pale ftreak : breafl mottled with 

 red: from thence to the vent white : tail as in the laft defcribed r 

 legs dufky. 



* The Br. Zool. mentions its being once (hot nearWa//; and Mr. Tunftall has 

 % fpecimen in his collection which came out of Dorfetjhire, 

 + Linrtesus. %. Arfl. Zoel, 



The 



