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dark brown stripe on the lores, another under the ear. Sides of the head, front of the neck, 

 and breast, pale wood-brown, with central spots of dark umber; the flanks, insides of the 

 wings, and under tail coverts, barred with black and white, which on the latter is tinged with 

 brown. Belly white. Bill blackish towards its tip, dark wood-brown at the base. 



Form typical. One small fold of the epidermis at the upper base of the bill. Tail rather 

 long, graduated, the feathers decreasing a little in breadth as they are more exterior. 



Inch. 



Length, total . . 11 

 ,, of tail . . 2 

 „ of wing . . 5 

 „ of bill above . 2 



Lin. 



6 

 10 



3 



7 



Dimensions. 



Inch. 



Length of bill to rictus . 2 



„ of naked thigh . 



„ of tarsus . . 1 



„ of middle toe . 1 



Lin. 



6^ Length of middle nail 

 5 „ of inner toe . 

 3 ,, of hind toe 

 3J ,, of hind nail 



Inch. Lin 

 . 3 



. 11 

 . 4 



. 1 



— R. 



[167.] 3. Scolopax 



Wilsonii. (Temm.) 



Wilson's Snipe. 





Genus, Scolopax, Linn. 



Snipe (Scolopax gallinago). Wils., vi., p. 18, pi. 47, f. 2. 



Scolopax Wilsonii. Bonap. Syn., No. 268 ; and p. 445. No. 306, b. Brit. Mus. 



A specimen of a Snipe from Hudson's Bay, in the British Museum, possesses 

 all the distinctive characters ascribed by the Prince of Musignano to his Sc. 

 Wilsonii, of which we have seen no authenticated examples. It differs from 

 S. Drummondii in its shorter tail, the outer feathers of which are more attenuated. 



DESCRIPTION 

 Of a specimen, in the British Museum, from Hudson's Bay. 



Colour. — Plumage of Sc. Drummondii. Tail, of sixteen feathers ; six middle pairs 

 reddish-black at the bases, brownish-orange* on their distal halves, slightly tipped with white, 

 and crossed by a narrow subterminal pitch-black bar ; two outer pairs brownish-white, with 

 three narrow, equidistant, blackish bars. — In form the tail is rounded laterally ; the middle 

 pair of feathers rather narrower and shorter than the three succeeding pairs, which are equal 

 in length, and about four lines and a half wide ; the four exterior pairs become shorter and 

 narrower in succession, the outer pair being only two lines wide, or not quite half the breadth 

 of the middle ones. 



Dimensions. 



Inch. Lin. Inch. Lin. Inch. Lin 



Length, total 10 6 Length of bill . .26 Length of middle toe . 1 li 



„ of tail ..23 „ of naked thigh .05 „ of middle nail . . 2£ 



,, of wing ..54 „ of tarsus ... 1 2 ,, of hind toe and nail 5 



-R. 



* The orange is much deeper on the four central pairs of feathers than on the two adjoining pairs. — R. 



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