i1. GREAT. 
GREAT SNIPE. Crass IL. 
the chin is white; the neck is varied with 
brown and red. ‘The scapulars are beau- 
tifully striped lengthways with black and yel- 
low; the quil feathers are dusky, but the 
edge of the first is white, as are the tips 
of the secondary feathers; the quil feathers 
next the back are barred with black and 
pale red; the breast and belly are white; the 
coverts of the tail are long, and almost cover 
it; they-are of a reddish brown color. The 
tail consists of fourteen feathers; black on 
their lower part, then crossed with a broad bar 
of deep orange, another narrow one of black, 
and the ends white, or pale orange. The vent 
feathers are of a dull yellow; the legs pale 
green; the toes divided to their origin. 
Scolopax major. Sc. nigro ma- Ind. orn. 714. id. baci v. 
culata supra testacea subtus 133. 
albida, lineaverticistestacea, Gm. Lin. 663. 
altera utrinque nigra. Lath. Arct. Zool. ii. 175. 
Tis species is rarely found in England.* 
A fine specimen, shot in Lancashire, was pre- 
* I have known this species to be killed in England, six or 
tight times, and it is probably met with oftener than is imagined, 
as sportsmen talk of pe ane ig epee of an extraordi- 
nary size. J.-L. 
