186 SNIPE. 



1. —WOODCOCK. 



Scolopax Rusticola, Ind. Orn. ii. 713. Lin. i. 243. Fn. suec. No. 170. Gm. Lin. L 



660. Scop. i. No. 134. Brim. No. 164. Midler, p. 23. Frisch, t. 226. 227. 



Id. 230.— White Var. Schcef. el. t. 61. George, 171. Fn. arag. 77. Borowsk. 



iii. 88. JFk tfe/y. Gerin. iv. t. 447. 7W Ma«. 437. Jrf. £d. 2d. 673. 

 Scolopax, Bra. v. 292. Id. 8vo. ii. 284. Rail, 104. A. 1. JFiV/. 213. t. 53. A7ei«, 



99. 1. Id. Stem. 20. t. 20. f. 1. a— c. /rf. Ou. 30. t. 11. f. 1. 2. Se/>p, iii. t. 287. 

 La Becasse, Buf. vii. 462. pi. 25. P/. enl. 885. Foy. e« BarS. i. 278. 

 Wald-Schnepff, Gunt. Nest. u. Ey. t. 18. Bechst. Deut. iii. 90. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 158. 



Naturf. xiii. 211. Schmid, Vog. p. 122. t. 107. 

 Accegia Beccagia, Cett. Uc. Sard. 248. 

 Woodcock, Gen. Si/n. v. 129. Br. Zool. ii. No. 178. pi. 65. Id.fol. 119. Id. 1812. 



ii. p. 40. pi. 10. f. 2. Flor. Scut. i. No. 142. Arct. Zool. ii. 470. A. Id. Sup. 



68. WW. Ang-/. 289. pi. 53. Borlas. Corn. 245. pi. 24. f. 12. Alb. i. pi. 70. 



Bradl. Nat. pi. 11. f. 2. Bewick, ii. pi. in p. 60. Lewin, iv. pi. 156. Walcot,iu 



pi. 136. Pult. Dors. 14. Graves, Br. Orn. Orn. Diet. Sup. Sf Ap. 



LENGTH fifteen inches ; weight from twelve to fifteen ounces. 

 Bill three inches long-, the upper mandible a trifle exceeding the 

 lower ; nostrils at the base ; and from thence is a furrow, the whole 

 length of the bill; forehead cinereous; from the bill to the eyes a 

 line of black, the eye very large, and dark-coloured ; crown of the 

 head, and upper parts of the neck, back, and wing coverts, mixed, 

 and barred with ferruginous, black, and grey; the crown darkest; 

 under eyelid white ; chin pale ash-colour ; fore part of the neck 

 yellowish, with dusky, minute dashes; under parts of the body 

 dusky white, barred with numerous dusky lines; quills dusky, 

 marked on the outer web with triangular, rufous spots ; the same 

 within, close to the shafts; tail rounded, tipped with ash-colour, 

 and rufous on the outer web ; legs pale flesh-coloured brown. 



The female may be distinguished by a narrow stripe of white 

 along the lower part of the exterior web of the outmost feather of 



