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parts white, but the sides, under the wings, streaked with brown ; 

 quills black ; tail banded, dusky and white ; hind toe placed high 

 up : the above is the dress of both sexes in the winter. In the summer 

 all the parts above are dusky brown, the edges of the feathers yel- 

 lowish in spots; beneath pale rufous, marked on the sides of the 

 breast; but the middle of the belly is pure white; quills black, 

 marked within with white. 



Inhabits the moist banks of rivers, and probably the marshes; in 

 respect to Germany, appears to be a bird of passage. Not met with 

 in Holland. M. Temminck remarks, that it is probably not distinct, 

 but belonging to the last described species. 



24- RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 



Scolopax Noveboracensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 723. Gm. Lin. i. 658. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 



681. Frankl. Narr. App. p. 687. 

 Red-breasted Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 153. Arct. Zool. ii. 368. Lin. Trans. V. ix. 198. 



Br. Zool. 1812. V. ii. p. 52. Om. Diet. Sup. pi. in ditto. .Arner. Orn. vii. 45. 



pi. 58. f. 1. 



LARGER than the Common Snipe, length fifteen inches.* 

 Bill more than two inches long; head, neck, and scapulars, varied 

 with black, ash-colour, and red ; fore part of the neck ferruginous, 

 thinly spotted with black ; coverts and secondaries dark cinereous ; 

 the last tipped with white ; back and rump white, concealed by the 

 scapulars; tail barred dusky and white; legs dark green, middle 

 and outer toes connected by a small web. 



Inhabits the coasts of New- York; found also in this kingdom. 

 In the spring of 1803, a small flock of them appeared on the coast 

 of Devon ; one of them was shot, and added to the collection of Col. 

 Montagu : a similar one soon after killed at Weymouth, in company 

 with several others; and a third met with at Sandwich, in Kent. 



* Montagu. 



