Or 
“es 
5. Rep 
BREASTED 
SNIPE. 
Bescrir- 
TION. 
RED BREASTED SNIPE. Cuass II. 
part of the interior black ; the upper half of the 
secondary feathers are of the same color ; the 
lower. half white ;*the coverts, and the Yas 
part ‘of the feathers of the tail are white; the 
upper part black ; the white gradually lessening 
from the outmost feathers on each side; the 
legs are black, and four inches long; and the 
thighs above the knees are naked for the space 
of an inch and three quarters. 
These birds vary in their colors, some that 
we have seen being very slightly marked with 
red, or only marbled with it on the breast; 
but the reflected form of the bill is ever suffi- 
cient to determine the species. This is not 
very common in England; we have known it- 
to. have been shot near Hull; and have once 
met with it in a poulterer’s shop in London. 
Scolopax noveboracensis. Sc. orn. 723. id. Syn. v. 153. 
nigro cinereo rubroque varia, Gm. Lin. 658. 
dorso abdomineque albis, Montagu in Lin. Tr. ix. 198: 
alis cinereis, cauda albo ni- Arcé. Zool. ii. 166. 
groque fasciata. Lath. Ind. 
[THE bill of this species is like that of the 
common snipe, and is two inches one eighth i in 
length; the head, neck, and scapulars, are varied 
