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7he yack-Snipe or yudcocL 



Numb. LXXXVI. 



TT weighed two Ounces; its length from the tip of the Bill to the end 

 -*■ of the Claws were ten Inches and a quarter, to the end of the Tail 

 eight and a half; it is about half as big as a Snipe; the Colour of the 

 Rump is a fhining blevvifli purple, like the Feathers of a Stare's back; 

 the tips of the Feathers are white ; the fcapular Feathers covering the 

 Back have their outward Border yellow, the middle part brown, with 

 red Spots; their inner Border is of a fhining blew, yet without any Mix- 

 ture of purple : The Neck is parti-coloured of brown, white, and pale 

 red; the top of the Head black, with a red Tin£ture; above the Eyes 

 pafs a broad Line of pale yellow; the Throat is of a pale red, painted 

 with white and brown Spots ; the Breaft and Belly are white ; between the 

 Eyes and Bill is drawn a black Line or Border; the Males in this Kind 

 differ from the Females neither in Colour, nor Magnitude. The prime 

 Feathers of the Wings are in number twenty four, of which the firft or 

 outmoft ten were brown or dusky ; the tips of the next ten white ; the 

 three laft or inmoft on the outiide the Shaft were ftreaked with red 

 and black. The tips of the greater covert Feathers are white: The 

 lefler Row of Wing Feathers are black, but partly tipt with red. 



The Bill was two Inches long ; the upper Chap a little longer than 

 the nether, towards the end broad and rough, with Points ('chamfered) 

 yet the very outmoft tip isfmooth; the Legs are bare above the Knees, 

 pale coloured with a dafh of green, the Toes divided to the bottom, 

 the Back-toe fmall, the Claws black. It feeds upon Beetles and other 

 Infedts. 



It hides itfelf among Ruflies, not riling fometimes till you are juft 

 ready to fet your Foot upon it : It is taken by fome for the Cock of the 

 common Snipe; but upon difleding of them, there is found both Male 

 and Female of this fmall Kind. 



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