226 snipe. 



38.— STONE SNIPE. 



Scolopax melanoleuca, Ind. Orn. ii. 723. Gm. Lin.i. 659. 



Totanus vociferus, Frankl. Narr. App. p. G87. 



Scolopax vociferus, Tell-tale Godvvit, or Snipe, Amer. Orn. vii. 57. pi. 58. f. 5. 



Chevalier, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. civ. 



Stone Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 152. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 376. 



THIS is fourteen inches and a half long, and twenty-five in 

 extent. Bill two inches and a quarter, dark horn-colour, and 

 slightly bends upwards ; the head, neck, breast, back, scapulars, 

 and greater coverts, spotted black and white; rump and tail barred 

 with the same ; primaries dusky ; legs long, and yellow. 



This, Mr Pennant observes, inhabits America, found in autumn, 

 feeding on the sands on the lower part of Chateaux Bay, that it 

 continually is moving the head, and there called the Stone Curlew. 

 The Amer. Orn. informs us, that the Tell-tale seldom flies in large 

 flocks, at least during summer; delights in watery bogs, or the like, 

 where it may find plenty of food ; occasionally met with inland, 

 along the muddy shores, and then, for the most part single. Its note 

 is a shrill, loud whistle, which it sets up on the approach of any one, 

 operating as a warning to other birds ; and the gunner well knows, 

 on the whistle of this, that the alarm is taken by every other bird 

 within hearing ; insomuch, as to make it unnecessary for him to 

 follow any longer his pursuit. 



39. -CINEREOUS SNIPE. 



Scolopax canescens, Ind. Orn. ii. 721. Gm. Lin. i. 668. 

 An Saginalis major, Gerin. iv. t. 445 ? 



Cinereous Godwit, Gen. Syn. v. 145. Br. Zool. ii. No. 180. pi. 66. Id. 1812. ii. p. 

 50. pi. 11. Bewick, ii. p. 83. Orn. Diet, fy Supp. 



SIZE of the Greenshank. Bill two inches and a half long, but 

 in proportion thicker; head, neck, and back, variegated with ash- 



