216 SNIPE. 



I observed also one of them in the collection of the late Mr. 

 Folijambe. Col. Montagu joins this with the Hudsonian Species, 

 but in my opinion, without foundation ; more especially as I had the 

 opportunity of fully examining a specimen, in good preservation in 

 my own collection, received from Hudson's Bay, and I have not met 

 with a second of the kind. 



25— BROWN SNIPE. 



Scolopax grisea, Tnd. Orn. ii. 724. Gm. Lin. i. 658. Tent. Man. Ed. ii. 680. 

 Red-breasted Snipe, female, Amer. Orn. vii. p. 46. 

 Brown Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 154. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 369. 



SIZE of the Common Snipe; length eleven inches. Bill two 

 inches and a half long, brown ; between the base and eye a white 

 bar; above the last a white speck ; head, neck, and scapulars, fine 

 cinereous brown, here and there marked with black; sides of the 

 head and fore part of the neck palest ; wing coverts and prime quills 

 dark brown, shaft of the first quill white; secondaries pale brown, 

 edged with white ; back white ; rump and tail barred black and 

 white ; breast mottled white and brown ; belly white ; legs dark 

 brown, hind toe placed high up, and pretty long. 



Found on the coasts of New-York. 



A.— Brown Snipe, Br. Zool. Ed. 1812. p. 65. Orn. Diet. 



This Variety has been met with on the Coast of Devonshire, and 

 was in the collection of Col. Montagu : it was a male, and differed in 

 but few particulars from the other. The Colonel observes, that the 

 bill is not so slender as in the Common Snipe, a little broad and 

 compressed near the end; it is dusky, lightest at the base; upper 

 mandible serrated within along the middle of the roof; both man- 

 dibles punctured, or rough near the tip ; irides dusky : in respect to 



