snipe. 235 



back, and all the under parts white; nape transversely banded 

 brown and white; top of the head, back, scapulars, and greater 

 wing coverts, light ash-colour, with whitish edges ; lesser coverts 

 dusky ash ; sides of the neck and breast whitish, with small brown 

 spots ; tail feathers white, obliquely striped with brown bands, but 

 the two outer have each a longitudinal zigzag one; legs olive-green. 

 This is the winter plumage ; the summer dress nearly as follows : — 

 the throat, breast, and belly, white; between the bill and eye, tem- 

 ples, neck before, flanks, sides of the breast, and under tail coverts, 

 the same; but each feather marked with a small black spot, on a 

 cinereous white ground ; back, scapulars, and greater wing coverts, 

 reddish ash, transversely striped with black, broadest near the ends, 

 and on the shoulders oblique; the two middle tail feathers ash-colour, 

 obliquely striped, and the rest marked on the outer webs with lon- 

 gitudinal zigzags ; bill black. 



Inhabits the north of Europe, on the borders of the sea and 

 rivers ; migrates along the eastern provinces, as far as the Mediter- 

 ranean ; supposed to breed in the northern regions. 



47.— GREENSHANK SNIPE. 



Scolopax Glottis, Lid. Orn. ii. 720. Lin. i. 245. Fn. suec. No. 171. Scop. i. No. 



137. Muller, p. 23. Borowsk. iii. 90. It. Poseg. p. 23 ? Fn. Helv. 

 Totanus Glottis, Tern. Man. 426. Id. Ed. 2d. 660. Sepp, iv. t. 319. Lin. Trans. 



xiii. p. 192. 

 An Chalidris Species, Gerin. iv. t. 458. 



Limosa grisea, Bris. v. 267. t. 23. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. 278. Klein, 102. 12 ? 

 Falcinellns, Brun. No. 167 ? 

 La Barge aboyeuse, Buf. vii. 501. 



variee, Buf. vii. 503 ? 



grise, Pl.enl. 876. 



Pluvialis major, Raii, 106. A- 8. Id. 190. 6. Will. 220. t. 55. Sloan. Jam. 317. 



9. t. 268. 

 Die Regenschnepfe, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 130. Naturf. xiii. 213. 

 Green-legged Horseman, Albin, ii. pi. 69. 



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