234 snipe. 



45— YELLOW-SHANKED SNIPE. 



Scolopax flavipes, Ltd. Orn. ii. 723. Gm. Lin. i. 659. 

 Totanus flavipes, Frankl. Narr. App. p. G88. 

 Le Chorlito brun piquete de blanc, Voy. d'Azara, iv. 396 ? 

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



Yellow-shanked Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 152. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 378. Amer. Orn. vii. 55. 

 pi. 58. f. 4. 



LENGTH eleven inches, breadth twenty. Bill slender, black, 

 two inches and one-third long, a little bent at the end ; it first turns 

 a trifle upwards, and then declines at the point ; head, neck behind, 

 back, and greater wing coverts, dirty white, spotted with black ; the 

 lesser pale brown ; primaries dusky : breast and fore part of the 

 neck spotted black and white ; legs four inches and a half long, very 

 deep yellow ; the wings rather longer than the tail. The male and 

 female alike in plumage. 



Inhabits North America, appears at New York, in autumn ; 

 frequents rice fields, ponds, &c. ; called by Mr. Abbot the Great 

 Sandpiper, also Will-willet. It seems to have much affinity with 

 the last described. It is a plentiful species, and to be seen in great 

 numbers in the markets at Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, 

 particularly in autumn ; and is, when fat, in considerable repute for 

 the table. 



46. -STAGNATILE SNIPE. 



Scolopax Totanus, Lin. i. 245. 



Albastrella cenerina, Gerin. Orn. v. pi. 458. 



Totanns stagnatilis, Chevalier stagnatile, Tern. Man. d' 'Orn. 418. Id. Ed. 2d. p. 648. 



Bechst. Deuts. iv. p. 261. 

 Barge grise, PI. enl. 876. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill weak and slender, dark ash-colour ; 

 irides brown ; the face, streak over the eye, throat, middle of the 



