SNIPE. H7 



on the outer feathers, fo as the exterior ones are white for nearly 

 the whole length : legs dufky. 



This inhabits Iceland, Greenland, and Sweden. Migrates in Place. 



flocks in the fouth of Rutfia. Seen about lake Baikal; and is 

 faid alfo to have been met with in England. 



Scolopax glottis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 245. 10. — Faun.'JSuec. iji.—Scop. Ann, i. jg^ 



N° 137.— Brun. 167.—: Muller, p. 23. +■ GREEN- 



La Barge grife, Brif. Orn. v. p. 267. 2. pi. 23. fig. 1. SHANK. 



variee, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 503. 



Pluvialis major, Raii Syn. p. 106. A. 8. 



Greater Plover of Androvand, Will. Orn. p. 106. pi. 55. — Sloan Jam, p. 

 317. 9. pi. 268 ? — Raii Sjn. p. 190. 6 ? 



Green-legged Horfeman, Albin, ii. pi. 69. 



Greenfliank, Br. Zool. N° 183.— ^r<!?. Zool. N" 379. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



C I Z E of the Red/hank : length fourteen inches: weight fix ounces. Description.' 



Bill two inches and a half long, black, and {lender •, the upper 

 mandible is ftrait, but bends a trifle downwards at the tip ; the 

 under curves in the fame manner upwards : the head, hind part 

 of the neck, and back, are pale afh-colour, marked down the 

 fhafts with brown ; the laft colour deepeft on the back, and oc- 

 cupying moft of the middle feathers : over the eye is a ftreak of 

 white : fcapulars as the back : the lower part of the back, and 

 all the under parts from the bread, white : quills dufky, marked 

 on the inner webs with white fpots ; the five outer ones darkeft : 

 tail white, crofled with dufky bars : legs dufky green, pretty long : 

 the outer toe united to the middle one as far as the firft joint: 

 claws black. 



Thefe birds are fome times in tolerable plenty on our coafts, Place and 



TT , . Manners. 



U 2 being 



