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GREAT SNIPE. 
(Gallinago majoi'.) 
Ga. nig7'o maculata supra testacea subtus albida, Ihiea verticis 
testacea, altera ntrinque nigra, cauda Jerruginea, rectricibus 
cvterioribus nigro Jasciatis. 
Snipe spotted with black, above testaceous, beneath whitish ; a 
line on the vertex testaceous, another on each side black, the 
tail rust-colour, its outer-feathers barred with black. 
Scolopax major. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 661. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 
714. Atlc. comp. 140. 
Scolopax paludosa. GmeL Si/st. Nat. 1. 666. Lath. Ind. Orn- 
2.714. 
Becasse des Savanes. Biiffl Ois. 7. 481. Buf. PI. Enl. 895. 
Great Snipe. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 188. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 
470. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 133. 4. Lath. Syn. Sup. Lew. Br. 
Birds, 4. 157. fValc. Syn. 2. 13/. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and 
Sup. Beiv. Brit. Birds, 11. 67. 
Grande Becassine. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 438. Id. 2. Edit. ii. 
675. 
Savanna Woodcock. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 133. 3. 
Length, from the beak to the end of the tail, 
twelve inches : beak two inches and three quarters 
(sometimes as much as four inches,) black : the under 
mandible pale half-way from the base : the top of the 
head brown, mottled with rufous : down the middle 
a clay-coloured line : sides of the head pale clay- 
colour, speckled with brown : through the eye, from 
the beak, a dark brown streak, and a paler one curving 
round the under mandible : hind part of the neck, 
half the back, and scapulars, chocolate-brown ; the 
feathers streaked on the sides with clay-colour, and 
