Descrip- 
TION, 
JACK SNIPE. Cuass IL. 
feeds on small snails; is much less frequent 
among us, and very difficult to be found, lying 
so close as to hazard being trod on before it 
will rise: the flight is never distant, and. its 
motion is more sluggish than that of the larger 
kind. 5 al ‘ikea 
Its weight is less than two ounces, inferior by 
half to that of the snipe ; for which reason the 
French call them deur pour un, we the half 
snipe. ‘The dimensions bear not the same pro=' 
portion; the length of the snipe being twelve: 
inches; this eight and a half. The bill is an 
inch and a half long; the crown of the head is 
black, tinged with rust color; over each eye is 
a yellow stroke; the neck varied with white, 
brown, and pale red. ‘The. scapular feathers: 
are narrow, very long, brown, and bordered 
with yellow. ‘The rump a glossy bluish pur- 
ple;. the belly and vent white; the greater quil 
feathers dusky; the tail brown, edged with 
tawny, consisting of twelve pointed feathers ; 
the legs are.of a cinereous green. 
