i $6 SNIP E. 



inches in length ; colour of it black : irides brown: the plumage 

 on the upper parts is wholly cinereous; the middle of each fea- 

 ther brown, which is in ftreaks on the head and neck, on the back 

 oblong, and on the rump tranfverfe : the under parts white i but 

 the throat and breaft ftreaked with afh-colour : wings afh-co- 

 lour, croffed with a bar of white : quills brown ; the fhaft of 

 the firft white, the fecond cinereous: fecondaries tipped with 

 white : the two middle tail feathers are cinereous ; the reft 

 the fame, varied with whitilh, but not banded: legs reddifn 

 brown : toes fomewhat palmated at the bafe : claws blackifh. 

 Male and female alike. 

 Place and This inhabits, during the fummer, the neighbourhood of the 



Manners. Cafpian Sea, particularly about the mouth of the river Terek, 



where it breeds. Met with in flocks in the marfhes, efpecially 

 on the borders of fait lakes, and feeds on infects. This feems 

 not perfectly confonant to any genus : feems a link between the 

 Snipe and Avofet : but, in our opinion, the hill turning down- 

 wards at the point, feems to forbid the placing it with the lat- 

 ter; though the feet being palmated gives it great affinity. 



32. Le Caurale, ou petit Paon des Rofes, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 169. pi. 14. — PL 



CAURALE SN. Enl. 782. 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. HP H I S is a moft beautiful fpecies : is about thefizeofthe 

 Whimbrel, and meaiures fifteen inches in length. The bill is 

 near two inches long, of a yellowifh green, and bends a very trifle 

 downwards : the head and fides below the eyes are black : over 

 the eye is a ftreak of white ; and the black is bounded beneath 

 by white, paffing from the chin and throat to the hind head ; in 



the 



