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1. Woop- 
COCK. 
WOODCOCK SNIPE. Cuass Il. 
GENUS V. SNIPE. 
Bit long, slender, weak, and strait. 
Nosrrits linear, lodged in a furrow. 
TonGueE pointed, slender. 
Toes divided, back toe very small. 
Scolopax Rusticola. Sc. casta- 
neo nigro griseoque varia, 
subtus rufescens fasciolis ni- 
gris, fascia capitis nigra, fe- 
moribus tectis. Lath. Ind. 
orn. 713. id. Syn. v- 129. 
La Beccasse. Belon av. 272. 
Rusticola, seu Perdix rustica 
major (Grosser schnepff). 
Gesner av. 501. 
Aldr. av. iii. 182. 
*Wil. orn. 289. 
Raii Syn. av.104. 
La Becasse. Brisson av. v. 
202. Hist. dois. vii. 462. 
Pl. Enl. 885. 
Beccaccia, Acceggia. Zinan. 
101. 
Schnifla. Scopoli, No. 134. 
Wald schnepf. Aram. 351. 
Frisch, ii. 226. foem. 227. 
Scolopax rusticola. Gm. Lin. 
660. . 
Morkulla. Faun. Suec. sp. 
170. 
Norvegis Blom-Rokke, Rutte; 
quibusdam Krog-quist. Da- 
nis Holt Sneppe. Brunnich, 
164. 
Fauna Scotica. No. 142. 
Br. Zool. 119. Arct. Zool. ii. 
174. ; 
THESE birds, during summer, are inhabi- 
tants of the Alps,* of Norway, Sweden, Polish 
Prussia, the march of Brandenburg,} and the 
northern parts of Europe: they all retire from 
* Wil. orn. 290. 
+ Frisch, ii. 226. 
