190 SNIPE. 



our late friend Colonel Montagu, that this bird has been found, in 

 several instances, annually to repair to the same haunts ; and Mr. 

 Bewick confirms this, giving an instance of one that was caught 

 unhurt, by the gamekeeper of E. M. Pleydell, Esq. in Dorsetshire ; 

 when this gentleman bent a bit of thin brass round the leg, and let 

 it fly ; in the next year this very bird was shot in the same wood 

 with the brass still fastened to the leg. 



A. — Scolopax Candida, Bris. v. 295. A. Id. Svo. ii. 285. Ind. Orn. ii. 724. Gen. 

 Syn. v. 131. Gcrin. t. 448. 449? 



The plumage of this Variety is wholly white ; we have also seen 

 one entirely of a very pale straw-colour ; another, in which the head 

 was pale red, the body white, and the wings brown ; aud again one 

 the usual colour, with the wings white : this was shot in the Isle of 

 Wight. 



2 —LITTLE WOODCOCK. 



Scolopax minor, Ind. Orn. ii. 714. Gm. Lin. i. 661. 

 Scolopax Americana rufa, Great Red Woodcock, Bartr. Tr. 292 ? 

 Little Woodcock, Gen. Syn. v. 131. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 365. pi. 19. Amer. Orn. vi. 

 pi. 48. 2. 



LENGTH eleven inches and a half. Bill two inches and a half long, 

 and brownish flesh-colour ; forehead cinereous ; hind part black, with 

 four transverse yellowish bars; between the bill and eye a dusky line; 

 chin white ; from thence all beneath dull yellow, paler on the belly ; 

 neck behind black, the feathers edged with yellowish red; back and 

 lesser wing coverts the same, the rest of the coverts marked with 

 zigzags of black and dull red; primaries dusky; inner coverts rust- 

 colour ; tail black. 



