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middlemoft are of like colour withthefe outmoft, fave that their tips are lefs white, 

 their bottoms more black, and the uppermoft crofs bar reddiih. Of the two middle 

 feathers the tips are white, next beneath the white is a brown bar, under the brown 

 a red one, with ibme dusky fpots in the middle. The reft of the feather is black, 

 fave thatin the outer Webs are fometimes feen one or two reddifh fpots. [ I fuppofe 

 the colours of the Tail vary, and are not exactly alike in all birds. ] 



The Bill is almoft three inches long, black at the tip, and fomewhat broad and 

 chamfcrd : The Tongue (harp: The hides of the Eyes hazel-coloured. The Legs 

 are of a pale green, the Talons black. The Toes long, and feparated from the firft 

 rile, without any connection or cohefion. The back-toe is very fmall. 



The Liver is divided into two Lobes, with a large Gall appendant. The Stomach 

 not very flelhy. Its fleih is tender, fweet, and of an excellent rellilh. 



It lives efpecially on the fatty unctuous humour it fucks out of the earth 3 but feeds 

 alfo upon Worms and other Infects. 



Some of thefe Birds abide with us all the Summer and build in our Moors and 

 Marines 3 laying four or five Eggs at a breeding time. The greateft part leave us, 

 and fly into other Countries. It feeks its food in moift and fenny places, and in Rivu- 

 lets and Gills of water, where alfo it hides it (elf, fd that it is very hard to find or; 

 efpyit. 



$. III. 



The Gid or JacfcSttipe or Jndcock. •' Gallinago minima feu tertia Bellonii. 



IT weighed two ounces : Its length from the tip of the Bill to the endof the Claws 

 was ten inches and a quarter, to the end of the Tail eight and a half. It is about 

 half fo big as a Snipe 5 whence it is called by the French, ? Deux pour un, as Bellonius * *«'• Two fof 

 witneffes. The colour of the Rump is a ihining bluilh purple, like the feathers on a one ' 

 Stares back} the tips of the feathers being white. The fcapular feathers covering the 

 Back have their outward border yellow, the middle part brown, with red fpots, their 

 inner border of a Ihining blue, yet without any mixture of purple. The Neck is 

 particoloured of brown, white, and pale red. The top of the Head, black, with a 

 red tincture ; Above either Eye paffes a broad line of a pale yellow. The Throat is 

 of a pale red,painted with white and brown fpots. The Breaft and Belly white. Be- 

 tween the Eyes and Bill is drawn a black line or border. The Males in this kind differ 

 from the Females neither in colour, nor in magnitude. The prime feathers of the 

 Wings were in number twenty four, of which the firft or outmolt ten were browri 

 or dusky : The tips of the next ten white. The three laft or inmoft on the outfide 

 the fhaft were ftraked with red and black. The tips of the greater covert-feathers 

 are white : The lefler rows of Wing-feathers are black, but partly tipt with 

 red. 



The Bill is almoft two inches long : The upper Chap a little longer than the nether, 

 toward the end broad and rough with * points, [chamfered] yet the very Utmoft tip * As if icwero 

 fmooth. The Legs bare fomewhat higher than the Knees^ pale-coloured, with a carved ° r 

 dafh of green. The Toes divided to the bottom : The back-toe fmall : The Claws graven ' 

 black. It hath a Gall-bladder, a mufculous Stomach : The flngle blind Gut or Appen- 

 dix, being the remainder of the Umbilical funnel conveying the Yolk into the guts, 

 Ihrunk up. It feeds upon Beetles, and other Infects. 



It hides it felf among Rulhes, not rifing fometimes till you are juit ready to let 

 your foot upon it : It is a fimpler bird than the Snipe, and lets frequent with us. I 

 fometimes following the vulgar error, thought it not to differ from the Snipe in kind, 

 but only in Sex, taking it to be the CockcSnipe. But afterward being advifed by 

 Mr. M.Lifter, I found it to differ fpecifically : For directing feveral of thefe fmall ones 

 fome proved to be Males, fome Females; 



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