BIRDS OF AMERICA. 



DRUMMOND'S SNIPE. 



-*" Scolopax Drummondii, Sicains. 



(not figured.) 



"This Snipe," according to Dr. Richardson, whose account of it I copy, 

 "is common in the Fur Countries up to latitude 65°, and is also found in the 

 recesses of the Rocky Mountains. Its manners are in all respects similar to 

 those of the European Snipes. It is intermediate in size between the Sc. 

 major and gallinago; it has a much longer bill than the latter, and two 

 more tail-feathers. Its head is divided by a pale central stripe, as in Sc. 

 gallinula and major; its dorsal plumage more distinctly striped than that 

 of the latter; and the outer- tail-feather is a quarter of an inch shorter than 

 that of S. Douglassi. 



Scolopax Drummondii, DrummonoVs Snipe, Swains, and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. 



p. 400. 

 Drummond's Snipe, Scolopax Drummondii, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 319. 



"Fur Countries to lat. 55°. Rocky Mountains." 



"Description of a specimen killed on the Rocky Mountains. Colour: — 

 Dorsal plumage and wings mostly brownish-black; the top of the head, 

 scapulars, interscapulars, intermediate coverts, posterior greater ones, and 

 tertiaries, reflecting green and mottled, or barred with yellowish-brown; this 

 colour also forming stripes from the forehead to the nape, over the eyes to 

 the sides of the neck, and more broadly on the exterior edges of the scapu- 



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