snipe. 237 



48 —ASH-COLOURED SNIPE. 



Scolopax incana, Ind. Orn. ii. 724. Gm. Lin. i. 658. 

 Ash-coloured Snipe, Gen. Si/n. v. 154. 



LENGTH eleven inches. Bill black, more than one inch and 

 a half long, straight, with the tip a trifle curved ; upper part of the 

 head, neck, and body, ash ; between the bill and eye a whitish mark ; 

 chin and fore part of the neck white, mottled a little with brown on 

 the throat; breast and sides of the body ash-colour; middle of the 

 belly white ; legs yellowish green. 



Inhabits the Islands of Eimeo, and Palmerston, in the Southern 

 Ocean. — Sir Joseph Banks. 



49.— GOTERA SNIPE. 



LENGTH ten inches. Bill nearly two inches, greenish black, 

 slender, straight, smooth, with some irregular protuberances about the 

 middle, edges of both mandibles very much inflected ; irides dark 

 brown ; front to the eyes, the chin, throat, breast, belly, vent, back, 

 and rump, white; the head and neck grey, dashed with black, the 

 scapulars and tertial quills grey, transversely marked with black ; 

 upper wing coverts brown, the under white; greater quills brown, 

 the inner webs white; the secondaries margined all round the tip 

 with white ; shafts white on the under side ; that of the first quill 

 is also white on the outside; tail coverts white, the upper ones barred 

 with dusky; the under have a few longitudinal dusky marks; tail 

 rounded, consisting of twelve white feathers, the four middle ones 

 barred with black, and the four outer on each side dotted irregularly; 

 thighs from the middle naked; wings, when closed, reach to within 

 half an inch of the end of the tail ; legs olive-colour; the outer and 

 middle toe connected as far as the first joint, by a slight web; hind 

 toe very small, and raised some distance from the ground. 



