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O R D. I. G E N. V. SNIPE. 



SPE. VIII. JADREKA SNIPE. 



PI. 163. 



Scolopax limofa. Lin. Syft. I. p. 245. 

 La Barge. BriJ. Orn.V. p. 262. 



The jadreka fnipe is feventeen inches in length, and weighs nine ounces. 

 The bill is about four inches long, dufky, with the bafe yellowifh : the chin, 

 white, tinged with red: the head, and neck, afh-coloured : the crown of the 

 head inclining to brown: the back, and wings, brown: the quill feathers, 

 black : on the wings a line of white : rump, lower belly, and vent, white : on 

 the neck, and breaft, a few dufky fpots : the two middle tail feathers black ; 

 the others black only at the ends, the bafe white, increafing as the feathers are 

 more outward, fo that the laft are white, efpecially on the outer web, almoft 

 to the tip : the legs long and dufky. 



In the female the colours are more faint : the fides of the head are afh- 

 coloured, inftead of white, but there is a ftreak of white over the eye : the 

 neck has a reddifh tinge : in other refpects it refembles the male. 



This bird now and then vifits England, but we believe it to be far from com- 

 mon. In the ifle of Sheppey it is called the rock fnipe. 



