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



SPE. VIII. GREEN SHANK. 



PI. 164. 



Scolopax glottis. Lin. Syji. I. p. 245. 

 La Barge grife. Br if. Orn. V. p. 267. 



This bird is fourteen inches long, and weighs fix ounces. The bill is 

 two inches and half long, blackifh, and flender : the upper mandible curves 

 a trifle downwards at the tip, the under curves flightly upward : the head, 

 and hind part of the neck, are afh-coloured, marked with fmall dufky lines 

 pointed downwards : over each eye pafles a white line : the lower part of 

 the back, and all the under parts, from the breaft, white: the coverts of 

 the wings, fcapulars, and back, are of a brownilh afh-colour, with pale 

 edges to the feathers : the quills, dufky, and fpotted with white on the inner 

 webs : the tail white, croffed with dufky bars : legs long, and of a dufky green. 



This fpecies is not uncommon in England, being met with in fmall flocks 

 in the winter time : it is faid likewife to breed with us fometimes. For the egg 

 fee pi. XXXVI, fig. 2. 



