SNIPE. 



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and this regular, with the neft in the centre, be the circuit larger 

 or fmaller ■, infomuch that an attentive obferver will often find it 

 out by this circumftance. It is common alfo in many parts 

 of Europe, as high as Finmark; and is likewife found in Sibiria* : 

 is indigenous alfo to the American continent* 



"DILL black j bare, reddilh, as in the Redjhank : iridesblue : 

 head, hind part of the neck, and back, greyifh : chin, throat, 

 bread, and belly, white ; fides of the three firft marked . with 

 fmall dufky fpots : over the eyes a line of white : wings dufky : 

 the outer webs of the coverts and fecondaries barred with white 

 and black; fhaft of the outer quill white : rump and tail barred 

 black and white : legs orange red. 



Inhabits the marines of China. From the drawings of the late 

 Dr. F other gilh 



20. 



Var. A. 



CHINESE 



REDSHANK. 



Description. 



Place. 



Scolopax Candida, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 247. 18'. 



Le Chevalier blanc, Brif. Om. v. p. 207. 8. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 519, 



White Redfliank, Ednu. pi. 139. 



CIZE of the Redjhank: length eleven inches. Bill almoft two, 

 of an orange-colour, with the tip black : the upper part of 

 the head, neck, back, fcapulars, lefTer wing, and upper tail co- 

 verts, are white, varied with tranfverfe rufous grey ftreaks : fore 

 part of the head, throat, and from thence to the vent, as alfo 

 the rump, pure white : greater wing coverts dirty white : prime 

 quills grey : fecondaries and tail white, fpotted tranfverfely with. 

 rufous grey : legs orange. 



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This. 



21. 



WHITE 

 REDSHANK. 



De 



SCRIPTION, 



