i4§ SNIPE. 



being met with in fmall flocks in the winter feafon, as well as in 

 marfh lands in the neighbourhood of the fea. Sometimes fent up 

 to the London markets, where I have bought them, and thought 

 their flefli to be well flavoured. Their fummer refidence is no 

 doubt to the northward, fince they are met with in Sweden, and 

 other parts*, and are in plenty in Rnjfia and Sibiria. Inhabits 

 alfo the province of New Tork^. Shane calls his bird a Curlew, 

 but fays the bill is ftrait ; and no doubt means this very fpecies : 

 that it is in Jamaica is certain, as I have received it from 

 thence. 



19. 



Scolopax totanus, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 245. 12. — Brun.~H° 157. — Mutter, 187. 

 SPOtTED —Georgi Rei/e, 171. 



SNJPE. Totanus alter, Raii Sj/i. p. 106. 11. — Will. Orn. p. 299. 



Barker, Albin, ii. pi. 71 ? 

 Spotted Redfhank, Br. Zool. N° 1S6. 



Description. QIZE of the Green/hank. The head of a pale aih-colour, 

 marked with oblong ftreaks of black: back duflcy, varied 

 with triangular white fpots : wing coverts afh-coloured, fpot- 

 ted in the fame manner : quills dufky : bread, belly, and thighs, 

 white ; the firft thinly fpotted with black : the middle feathers of 

 the tail afh-coloured ; the fide feathers whitifh, barred with 

 black : legs long, and of a bright red. 

 Pla'cbT Inhabits various parts of the continent of Europe; and has been 



met with, though rarely, in England. 



* Sondmaer, Strom. 235. f ArS. Zool. 



Spotted 



