SNIPE. 241 



One sent to me from Hudson's Bay, had less white about the 

 head; the spots on the wings very distinct, but the prime quills 

 were dusky, without spots. The bill two inches and a quarter long, 

 brown, shaped exactly as in the Greenshank; legs yellowish brown. 



53— COURLAND SNIPE. 



Scolopax Curonica, Ind. Orn. ii. 724. Gm. Lin. i. GG9. Schrift. Berl. Nat. vii. 



462. 42. 

 Tringa fusca, Lin. i. 252. 



Totanus fuscus, Tern. Man. d'Om. 412. Id Ed. ii. 640. 

 Courland Snipe, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 310 



GENERAL colour of the plumage grey, more or less spotted 

 above ; from the forehead to the back inclining to blackish ; on the 

 latter some spots of white ; wings blackish, the shaft of the first 

 prime quill white, the rest spotted on the webs with white ; secon- 

 daries the same ; wing coverts grey, with whitish margins ; tail 

 blackish, with irregular bands of white ; bill dusky, beneath for 

 halfway from the base red ; legs testaceous. 



Inhabits Courland. 



54 —TEREK SNIPE. 



Scolopax Terek, Ind. Orn. ii. 724. 



cinerea, N. C. Petr. xix. 6. t. 19. Gm. Lin. i: 657. 



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

 Terek Avoset, Arct. Zoo/, ii. 502. A. 

 Terek Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 155. 31. 



LENGTH nine inches. The bill bends upwards from the base, 

 and a little downwards from the tip, and is nearly two inches in 

 length, colour black; irides brown; plumage on the upper parts 



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