ORD. I. GEN. V. SNIPE. 



SPE. V. REDGODWIT. 



PI. 161. 



Scolopax Lapponica. Lin. Syft. I. p. 246. 

 La Barge rouffe. Brif. Orn. V. p. 181. 



This bird is larger than the woodcock, and the neck and legs are both 

 longer. The bill is in fome almoft four inches long, inclining a little up- 

 wards, of a dufky colour, but yellowifh toward the bafe : the body is dufky 

 above, the feathers bordered with ruft colour : the wing coverts, brown, with 

 whitifh margins : the head, neck, and bread, are of a bright ruft colour ; the 

 head marked with oblong dufky lines ; the breaft, fides, fcapulars, and back, 

 varied with tranfverfe black bars, and the edges of the feathers with a pale afh 

 coloured brown : the middle of the belly is white, marked fparingly with fimi- 

 lar fpots : the quills are black, and within towards the bafe white : the lower 

 part of the feathers of the tail white; the upper, black : the legs dufky. 



This fpecies is an inhabitant of the fens, among which it is found moft plen- 

 tifully in the -northern parts of America, though it is not uncommon in various 

 parts of the continent of Europe. In England it is very rare, but has been 

 fhot near Hull : and a fpecimen, killed in Dorfetfhire, is in the collection of 

 the late Marmaduke Tunftall, Efq. 



