220 SNIPE. 



with numerous dots of dusky ; the rest of the neck before and breast 

 buff-white, with dusky crescents, from thence the under parts are 

 white; legs pale red, the shins are two inches long, above the joint 

 bare for one inch ; the wings rather exceed the tail in length. 

 Inhabits India. — Gen. Hardwicke. The name Bhesroudee-burra. 



31— CAWNPORE SNIPE. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half Bill one inch and three 

 quarters, dusky ; forehead to the middle of the crown, a streak over 

 the eye, and all beneath white; rest of the crown, back of the neck, 

 and ears, dusky and white spotted ; back and wings brown, the 

 former inclined to ash-colour; quills black; tail white, with four or 

 tive dusky bars, and tipped with the same; the quills reach rather 

 beyond the tail : the bird stands high on the legs, the shins being 

 two inches and a quarter long; the part above the joint, bare for 

 one inch. 



Inhabits India. — Found about Cawnpore, in October, and named 

 Soormee. — Gen. Hardwicke. 



32— ASH-HEADED SNIPE 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill two inches and a quarter long, 

 a trifle bending downwards towards the point; i rides hazel; general 

 colour of the plumage deep ash; eyelids surrounded with a rim of 

 white, divided by a dusky streak, passing through the eye ; feathers 

 of the back spotted, and margined with white ; wing coverts brown, 

 edged with dusky white; greater coverts whitish, marked with brown 

 spots; second quills dusky, spotted on the edges with white; lower 

 part of the back and rump, lower belly and vent white, marked 



