SNIPE. 195 



Inhabits India. — Sir J. Anstruther. It is there called the Jack- 

 Snipe, or Burka ; but it differs much from that bird, as the bill and 

 legs are much longer in proportion ; it seems more allied to the Great 

 Snipe, of which perhaps it may be a small Variety, and the upper 

 tail coverts reach far on the tail as in that species. 



7.— COMMON SNIPE. 



Scolopax Gallinago, hid. Orn. ii. 715. Lin. i. 244. Fn. suec. No. 173. Gm. Lin. i. 



662. Scop. i. No. 138. Brim. No. 160. 161. Id. 162. Var. Muller, p. 33. Kram. 



352. Borowsk. iii. S9. Frisch, t. 229. Georgi, 182. Raii, 105. A. 2. Will. 



214. t. 53. Bris. v. 298. Id. Svo. ii. 285. Fn. arag. p. 77. Fn. Helv. Sepp, 



t. p. 247. Gerin. iv. t. 445. Tern. Man. 429. Id. Ed. 2d. 676. Lin. Trans. 



xiii. p. 191. 

 Scolopax media, Klein, 99. 2. Id. Stem. 20. t, 20. f. 2. a— c. 

 Becassine, Buf. vii. 483. pi. 26. PI. ml. 883. Get. Uc. Sard. 248. 

 Heerschnepfe, Bechst. Dent. iii. s. 110. Naturf. xiii. 212. 

 Mooschnepfe, Naturf. xviii. s. 68. II. Schmid, Fog. 122. t. 108. 

 Snipe, Gen. Syn.w. 134. Br. Zool. ii. No. 187. pi. 68. Id.fol. 121. Id. 1812. ii. p. 



60. pi. 13. f. 2. Fl. Scot. i. No. 144. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 366. Will. Engl. 290. 



pi. 53. Alb. i. pi. 71. Hist. Selb. 29. Collins' s Anat.W. pi. 24. Bewick, ii. pi. 



in p. 68. Lewin, iv. pi. 158. 7e?. xxvii. 2. — the egg. JFa/c. ii. pi. 138. Pult. 



Dors. p. 14. Orn. Diet. Amer. Orn. vi. pi. 47. f. 1. 



THE weight of this bird is four ounces ; length twelve inches ; 

 breadth fifteen. Bill three inches long, dusky, fiat at the end, 

 rough, and paler at the base; irides dusky; the head is divided 

 lengthwise by two black lines, and three of red ; one of the last 

 passing down the middle, and one above each eye ; between the bill 

 and eye a dusky line ; chin white ; neck varied brown and red ; the 

 scapulars are beautifully marked with black and yellow ; quills 

 dusky; the edges of the first, and tips of the secondaries white ; and 

 those next the back barred with black and pale red ; breast and 

 belly white; tail coverts long, of a reddish brown, and almost cover 

 the tail, which consists of fourteen feathers, black on their lower part, 

 then crossed with a bar of deep orange ; another narrow one deep 



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