PLATE CCVIII. 



SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA, war. 

 WOODCOCK, Pied-white. 



Grall.e. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill roundifti, obtufe, longer than the head : noftrils linear : face 

 covered : feet four-toed, hind-toe confuting of many joints. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Bill ftraight, reddilh at the bafe : legs cinereous : thighs covered : 

 head with a black band each iide. 



Scolopax Rusticola : roftro re£io baft* rufefcente pedibus cinereis 

 femoribus te6tis, fafcia capitis nigra. Gmel. 

 Linn. Syft. Nat. 660.— Fn. Suec. 170. 



Numenius roftri apice laevi, capite linea utrinque nigra, re6iricihus 

 nigris apice albis.— Fn. Suec. i.n. 141. 



Gallina rujftica. Gejh. av. 477. 



Scolopax. Bell. av. 272. Briff. av. 5. p. 292. n. 1. 

 B6calfe. Buff. Hiji. Nat. 7. p. 462. t. 25. 



Woodcock. 



