SNIPE. 



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wing coverts, dirty white, fpotted with black : leffer coverts plain 

 brown : primaries dufky : breaft and fore part of the neck fpot- 

 ted black and white: belly and tail coverts white: tail barred 

 brown and white : legs yellow. 



Appears in the province of New York in autumn. 



Place, 



Nodding Snipe, Ar3. Zool. N° 370. 



CIZE of the common Snipe. . Bill flender, long, black: crown 

 and upper part of the back dufky, ftreaked with red : cheeks 

 cinereous, ftreaked with black : neck and breaft cinereous, mixed 

 with ruft-colour, and marked with obfcure dark fpots : belly 

 white : thighs fpotted wich black : lefler wing coverts afh-colour- 

 ed; greater dulky, edged with brown : quills dufky; the fecon- 

 daries tipped with white : lower part of the back white, fpotted 

 with black: tail barred black and white j tip reddifh : legs green* 

 ith : the toes bordered by a narrow plain membrane. 



Obferved in Chateaux Bay, on the coaft of Labrador, in Septem- 

 ber. Are perpetually nodding their heads. 



2 S- 

 NODDING SN. 



Description. 



Place. 



Black Snipe, Aril. Zool. N" 381. 



DILL and legs red : plumage moft intenfely black. 

 Obferved by Steller in the iflands towards America. 



26. 

 BLACK SN. 



Description.]; 

 Place. 



Red-breafled Snipe, Aril. Zool. N° 368. 27. 



RED-BREASTED 



SIZE of the common Snipe. Bill like that bird ; above two inches _ 

 c Description. 



long : head, neck, and fcapulars, varied with black, afti- 

 colour, and red : fore part of the neck and breaft ferruginous, 



Vflt. III. 



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