BROWN SNIPE. 35 



tinged with brown-ocre ; the upper part of the back and 

 scapulars have the centres of the feathers dusky, bordered 

 with grey and brown-ochre. Wing-coverts dusky with paler 

 edges. 



The secondaries and tertials are edged and tipped with 

 white ; breast and belly white ; under tail-coverts and vent 

 white, barred with dusky ; rump and tail the same as in 

 the summer plumage. Quills dusky, the shaft of the first 

 white. 



