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SNIPE. 



Place. This was met with at Hud/on" s Bay ; and, on our further ac- 



quaintance with it, is not unlikely to prove a mere variety of the 

 Redjhdnk. 



zz. 



SEMIPALMAT- 

 ED SN. 



Description. 



Semipalmaied Snipe, Ar£l. Zool. N° 330. 



I ENGTH fourteen inches. Bill two inches long, dufky : 

 head and neck flreaked black and white : breaft: white, 

 marked with round black fpots : belly and fides white ; the laft 

 crofted with tranfverfe bars of brown : back and wing coverts 

 cinereous, with great fagittal fpots of black : primaries dufky, 

 croffed with a white bar : fecondaries white : the middle feathers 

 of the tail cinereous, barred with black ; outmoft white : legs 

 dufky : toes femipalmated. 

 Inhabits New York. 



23. 

 STONE SN. 



Description. 



Place. 



Scone Snipe, Ar8. Zool. N° 376. 



nPWICE the fize of a Snipe. Bill black: head, neck, breaft, 

 back, fcapulars, and greater coverts, fpotted black and white : 

 rump and tail barred with the fame : primaries dufky : legs long 

 and yellow. 



Obferved in autumn, feeding on the fands on the lower part 

 of Chateaux Bay, and are called Stone Curlews. Are perpetually 

 nodding their heads. 



24. 

 YELLOW- 

 SHANKS. 



Description. 



Yellowfhanks, ArB. Zool. N° 378. 



T ENGTH eleven inches. Bill flender, black, a little bent 

 at the end : head, hind part of the neck, back, and greater 



6 wing 



