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ORD. I. GEN. V. SNIPE. 



SPE. IX. SPOTTED SNIPE. 



PI. 165. 



Scolopax Totanus ? Lin. Syfl. I. p. 245. 

 Le Chevalier rouge. Brif. Orn. V. p. 192. 



This fpecies is about the fize of the greenfhank : the bill, two inches and 

 half long, reddifh, and (lender as in that bird, but the tip not at all curved : 

 the head is pale afh colour ftreaked with black : the back, and wings, dufky 

 am colour, thickly marked with triangular white fpots : quills, dufky, the fhafts, 

 white : belly, and thighs, white : the breaft, the fame, thinly fpotted with 

 black : the two middle feathers of the tail are afh colour, the fide feathers, whi- 

 tifh, barred with black : the legs, long, and of a bright red. 



This is met with in England, but rarely. 



