Manners. 



SNIPE. 149 



Spotted Woodcock, Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixii. p. 410. ,. 



Spotted Snipe, ArS. Zool. N° 374. +■ Var. A. 



Lev. Muf. 



HIS is larger and longer than the Green/hank : in length Description. 

 near fixteen inches. The bill more than two inches long, 

 and brown : orbits, chin, and throaty white : from the bill to the 

 eye a line of white : cheeks and fore part of the neck white, 

 with fhort dufky ftreaks : crown and upper part of the neck 

 brown, ftreaked with white : wings black, marked with elegant 

 triangular fpots of white: breaft and belly white : legs long,, and 

 in the living bird of a rich yellow ; fometimes red. 



This is found in North America, and is common at Hudforfs- Place and 

 Bay; comes into the neighbourhood of Albany fort, the end of 

 April or beginning of May, and departs the end of September. 

 Frequents the banks of rivers, feeding on fmall fhell-fifh and 

 worms. On its return towards the fouth flops at New York for 

 a time, but proceeds more fouthward, in order to pafs the winter. 

 The natives call this fpecies Sa-fa-Jhew ; the Englijh, Yellow-legs. 

 This, and feveral other fpecies of Snipes and Sandpipers., are call- 

 ed, in North America, Humilities*. 



My fpecimen feems ftronger marked ; with lefs white about 

 the head than in the above, and the fpots on the wings very dif- 

 tinct; but the prime quills are dufky, and not fpotted : the bill 

 is two inches and a quarter long, brown, fhaped exactly as that 

 of the Green/hank : the legs yellowifh brown. 1 received this 

 from Hudjorfs Bay, and efteem it as differing in fex only from the 

 laft defcribed, 



* Ar£l. Zool. 



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