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Least Snipe, Rati >n. p. 190. 11. 



Sloan, am. p. 320. 14. pi. 265. 4, 

 Stint, or Ox-Eye. Rati Syn. p. no. A. 13. 



Will. Orn. p. 305. 

 Wagtail, Kolb. Cap. I. p. i$i.f— Brown Jam. p. 477, 

 L'AUouette de Mer. Brif. av. 5. 211. tab. 19* fig. 1: 

 ifc/w av» 213, 



Buf.Oif. 7. j). 548.— P/. *»/. 851, 

 Giarolo. ^/ir. #<y. 3. 188. 



Length feven inches and a half; extent fourteen inches ; weight 

 an ounce and a half. 



This Species is very common in moft parts of Europe, and is fai'd 

 to be found at the Cape of Good Hope; in Jamaica and other Weft- 

 India Illands. They frequent our coafts in the winter in vaft flocks, 

 alternately fv/imming and flying in large circles with the greateft re- 

 gularity : they leave our fhores in fpring, and retire to fome unknown 

 place to breed. Mr. Latham fufpects that they breed on the coaft of 

 Kent, having received fome birds which fcarcely differed from the 

 defcription, from Mr. Boys of Sandwich 5 they were fhot at Romney, 

 in the month of Auguft. 



Le Cincle of Buffon and L'AUoutte de Mer a Collier of Brifson 

 has much affinity to this Bird, and is fuppofed to be only a difference 

 of fex or age, as they are often taken in company. 



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