194 SNIPE. 



5.— CAYENNE SNIPE. 



Scolopax Cayanensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 715. Gm. Lin. i. 661. 

 La Becassine, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 388. — Deuxieme espece. 

 Cayenne Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 134. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill straight, stout, a trifle bent at 

 the end, colour dusky, with a reddish base; plumage on the upper 

 parts of the body pale cinereous brown, mottled with pale buff- 

 colour; greater wing coverts dirty white; some of the outer ones 

 edged with brown ; quills white at the base, the rest of the length 

 brown, and some of the inner ones white at the tips; bastard wing 

 brown; under wing coverts mottled dusky and white; under parts 

 in general white, but the fore part of the neck a little mottled with 

 dusky; rump white; tail the same as the back, barred, and tipped 

 with dusky; legs brown. 



Inhabits Cayenne, and other warm parts of America. 



6.— BURKA SNIPE. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill two inches long, dusky, with a 

 black tip ; plumage in general light greenish ash, the head palest ; 

 down the middle of the crown a mottled dark streak ; over the eye 

 a broad one of the same, and through the eye one more obscure ; 

 back and scapulars black, most of the feathers margined with rufous, 

 and more deeply with yellowish white, falling over the wing as in the 

 Jack Snipe; the neck and breast marked with black spots; the rest 

 of the under parts white ; wing coverts plain ; the rest of the wing 

 crossed with lines of black; rump the same; quills dusky; tail 

 black, the end, for one-third of an inch, tawny or rufous, the very 

 tip white ; legs pale green. 



