45o GREAT SNIP E. Class II. 



with black and yellow : the quil-feathers are dulky, 

 but the edge of the firft is white, as are the tips 

 of the fecondary feathers : the quil-feathers next 

 the back are barred with black and pale red: the 

 bread and belly are white : the coverts of the tail 

 are long, and almoft cover it : they are of a reddilh 

 brown color. The tail coniiits of fourteen feathers ; 

 black on their lower part, then crorTed with a 

 broad bar of deep orange, another narrow one of 

 black ; and the ends white, or pale orange. The 

 vent feathers a dull yellow : the legs pale green : 

 the toes divided to their origin. 



1 88. Great ryvHIS fpecies is rarely found in England. A 

 fine fpecimen, fhot in Lancajhire, is pre- 

 ferved in the Mufeum of Ajhton Lever, Efq. 



The weight eight ounces. The head divided 

 lengthways by a teftaceous line, bounded on each 

 fide by another of black : above and beneath each 

 - ' eye is another : neck and bread of a yellowifli 

 white, finely marked with femicircular lines of 

 black : belly, with cordated fpots : fides undulated 

 with black. 



Back, coverts of wings, and fcapulars tefcace- 

 ous, {potted with black and edged with white. 

 Primaries dufky. Tail mil-colored, barred with 

 black. Lees black ? 



Gid, 



