SNIPE. 



Inhabits Eimeo and Pahnerjion Ifl.es. In the collection of Sir 

 Jofeph Banks. 



'55 



Place. 



Scolopax fufca, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 243. 5. 



La Barge brune, Brif. Orn. v. p. 276. 4. pi. 23, fig. 2. — Buf. Oif. vii. 



p. 508.— PI. Enl. 875. 

 Duty Snipe, Aril. Zool. p. 471. 6. 



T ENGTH almoft twelve inches. Bill two inches and one third, 

 a little bent downwards at the point ; colour black ; the bafe 

 of the lower mandible pale : plumage on the upper part of the 

 body dufky black ; the edges of the feathers whitifh : crown 

 darker!, and plain : fcapulars and lefler wing coverts marked with 

 whitifh fpots on the margins : lower part of the back and rump 

 white : cheeks, throat, and fore part of the neck, deep afh-colour : 

 from thence to the vent the fame, but growing lighter as it ap- 

 proaches the laft, and here and there mixed and edged with 

 white : quills brown, paleft within, and fpotted with grey on the 

 outer margin, and fome of the fecondaries on both webs : the 

 two middle tail feathers dufky brown, marked with tranfverfe 

 whitifh ftreaks; the others brown, crofled in the fame manner with 

 white : legs brown. 



Breeds within the Arttic circle. Migrates into Rujfia and Si- 

 biria. 



3°- 



DUSKV SN. 



Description, 



Place 



Scolopax cinerea, N. C. Peer. vol. xix. 6. 

 Terek Avofet, Ar8. Zool. p. 502. 



t. 19. (J. Gueldenjlaedt.) 



TEREK SN. 



ENGTH nine inches. The bill bends upwards from the Description, 

 bafe, and a little downwards at the tip, and is nearly two 



X 2 . inches 



