SCOLOPAX GALLINAGO. 



COMMON SNIPE. 



Generic Character, See Scolopax rufticola. 

 Synonyms. 



Scolopax Gallin ago. Lin. Syft. 1. p, 244.7. 



Orn. 2, p. 7 15, 6. 

 Snipe. Br. Zool 2. 187. tab. 68, Ib.fol. 121. Arcl. 



Zool. 2, 366. Syn. 5. p. 134. 



6. Mo;;/. Orn. Dicl. /^/. 2. Bewick's 



Br. Birds, PL 2. j>. 75. 



ii' hllM TO iwimwi 



JL HIS well-known fpecies weighs about four ounces, Is 

 twelve inches in length, and fixteen in breadth. Bill three 

 inches long, flattened at the bafe, tip rough ; eyes hazel ; 

 tail compofed of fourteen feathers ; legs flender, varying in 

 colour in different fubjects, fome being of a light green, and 

 others of a dark flate colour ; toes long and delicately flender. 

 The fexes are not difcoverable by their plumage. 



The haunts of the Snipe are molt generally in places that 

 are frequently over-flowed with water, or by the fides of 

 running ftreams, where the ground is fufficiently foft to be- 

 penetrated by its bill • it is a fhy bird, and by no means eafy 

 of approach ; when it conceives itfelf in fecurity, it is conti- 

 nually pacing the ground, at which time its tail is frequently 



moved 



