202 SNIPE. 



10. -BLACK-BREASTED SNIPE. 



SIZE of the Cape Snipe. Bill two inches long, brown, and a 

 trifle bent at the end ; crown of the head dusky, down the middle 

 a pale stripe; sides round the eye pale, nearly white; chin pale, 

 mottled ; neck behind pale ferruginous ; breast, sides, and under 

 wing coverts, dusky black; belly and sides white, curving under 

 the wing on the sides of the breast ; all the wing coverts cinereous 

 brown, crossed with numerous, fine, dusky lines; quills black, with 

 oval, pale ferruginous, or clay-coloured spots; tail ash-coloured, 

 mottled, and crossed with dusky lines, and round clay-coloured spots; 

 legs dusky. 



In the collection of Mr. Harrison, without any history annexed : 

 it seems somewhat allied to the Cape Species. 



11— SIAMESE SNIPE. 



Becassinette de Siam, Martinet Plates, No. 169. 



THE bill in this bird is pale dusky blue; crown of the head, 

 above the eye, dusky white; chin, throat, and neck before, the same; 

 at the nostril begins a pale rufous stripe, growing broader, and 

 passing under the eye, and from thence continuing to the hindhead, 

 and back part of the neck, quite to the back; back dusky white, 

 marked with irregular, dusky blotches, with a few other darker spots 

 intermixed ; lesser wing coverts much the same ; the greater nearly 

 plain ; greater quills black, the series above them white ; all the 

 under parts, thighs, and vent, dusky white, mottled with dusky lines; 

 upper and under tail coverts white; tail dusky, the feathers with 

 pale margins; legs pale yellow. 



