Ctafs It." JACK SNIPE; J5J 



end of the tail, is near twelve inches : the breadth 

 about fourteen : the bill is three inches long, of 2 

 dufky color : the head is divided lengthways with four 

 black lines, and three of red, one of the laft paffing 

 over the middle of the head, and one above each eye: 

 between the bill and the eyes is a dufky line : the chin 

 is white : the neck is varied with brown and red : 

 the fcapulars are beautifully ftriped lengthways with 

 black and yellow : the quil-feathers are dufky, bus: 

 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 almoin 

 conceal it ; they are red barred with black : the tail 

 is dusky? marked with ruft- color and tipt with white* 

 The legs of a pale green. 



VIII. The JACESNIFE, 



GicU Jackfnipe, and Judcock. Pizzardina. Zinan. 102. 



Wil. orn. 29 1 . Scolopax gallinuia. Lin. Jyft* 

 Raii/yn. a<v. 105. 244. 



jLa. petite Beccaffine. Briffon av. DaHisRQer^Sneppe.BrufmzchiCfr 



v.- 303. tab. 26. fig. 2. Br. ZooL 121- 



^pHE haunts and food of this (pedes are the fame" 

 -** with thofe of the former. It is much lefs fre- 

 quent among us, and very difficult to be found, 

 lying fo clofe as to hazard being trod on, before ic 

 will rife : the flight is never diftant, and its motion is 

 ssore fluggifti than that of the larger kind. 



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