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ORD. I. G E N. V. SNIPE. 



SPE. IV. JACK SNIPE. 



PI. 160. 



Seolopax Gallinula. Lin. Syfl. I. p. 244. 

 La petite Becaffine. Brif. Orn. V. p. 503. 



This bird weighs lefs than two ounces, and is eight inches and half in length : 

 the bill not quite two inches. The crown of the head is black, tinged with 

 ruft colour : over each eye, a ftreak of yellow : between the eye and bill, a 

 black line : the neck variegated with white, brown, and pale red : the fcapu- 

 lars are long, brown, bordered on the outfide with yellow, and on the infide 

 with mining blue : the rump, a glofly bluifh purple : the belly, and vent, 

 white: the quill- feathers dufkyj the innermol ftreaked with red and black: 

 the tips of the greater covert feathers white : the tail confifts of twelve pointed 

 feathers, brown edged with tawny: the legs are of a greenifh am colour. 



It is found in the fame places as the common fnipe, of which it was once 

 vulgarly fuppofed to be the male, and refembles it in its manners. 



