SNIPE. 231 



Inhabits England, but is not common ; was shot on the Coast of 

 Lincolnshire : is rare in France, and other parts of Europe ; found in 

 Scandinavia and Iceland, called in the last, Stelkr : has been taken 

 in the Frozen Sea, between Asia and America ; most probably allied 

 to the Redshank. 



43.— STRIATED SNIPE. 



Tringa striata, Ind. Orn. ii. 733. Lin. i. 248. Gm. Lin. i. 672. Muller, N. 194. 



Fn. Groenl. No. 73. Stroem. Act. Nid, iii. 440. t. 6.* Borowsk. iii. 94. 3. 



Fn. Helv. Sepp, iii. t. p. 259. 

 Reginus nonnullorum in Etrnria, Gerin. iv. t. 459 ? Id. 464 ? — Gambetta. 

 Totanus striatus, Bris.v. 196. t. 18. f. 1, Id. 8vo. ii. 263. 

 Le Chevalier raye, Bvf. vii. 516. PI. enl. 827. 

 Striated Sandpiper, Gen. Syn. v. 176. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 383 ? 



SIZE of a Starling ; length ten inches and three quarters, the 

 base half of the bill red, the rest black; upper parts of the body 

 undulated dusky and cinereous; neck before dusky; breast and 

 belly white ; quills black, the secondaries tipped with white, pointed 

 at the ends, and nearly as long as the prime quills ; tertials white, 

 with a stripe of black; rump white; tail white, barred with dusky 

 brown ; the two middle feathers spotted also with grey brown ; legs 

 pale red. 



That described in the Arct. Zool. has the tail black, the feathers 

 on the side cinereous, edged with white ; and the white rump not 

 mentioned ; if, therefore, it is the same with that of Linnaeus, Brisson, 

 and the Greenland Fauna, the difference must arise from sex. 



Inhabits the colder parts of Europe ; found in Sweden and 

 Norway, also in Russia and Siberia, but less frequent ; met with 

 even in Iceland and Greenland : in the last place throughout the 

 year ; runs backwards and forwards on the shore, as the waves 

 approach or recede, feeding on the insects left on the beach ; often 

 skims the surface of the water like the Swallow, catching insects; 



