CAYENNE SNIPE. 
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Temminck asserts, that this species, and the Savanna 
Woodcock of the former, are both the same bird, 
slightly varying from each other from climate. 
CAYENNE SNIPE. 
(^Gallinago Cayanensis.) 
Ga. cinereo-fiisca testaceo varia, corpore subtns uropygioque albo, 
tectricibus alarum majoribus remigibicsgue primoribzis basi al- 
bidis, Cauda Jasciis obscuris. 
Ash-brown Snipe varied with testaceous^ the body beneath and 
the rump white, the great wing-coverts and primary quills 
whitish at the base, the tail with obscure bars. 
Scolopax Cayanensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 661. Laih. Jnd. Orn. 
2. 715. 
Cayenne Snipe. Lath. Gen. Sy7i. 5. 134. 5. 
Latham thus describes this species : " Length 
thirteen inches : beak straight, stout, a trifle bent at 
the end ; colour dusky, reddish at the base : plumage 
on the upper part of the body pale cinereous-brov^rn, 
mottled with pale buff-colour : greater wing-coverts 
dirty white ; some of the outer ones edged with 
brown : base of the quills white, the rest of their 
length brown, and some of the inner ones white at 
their tips : bastard wing brown : under wing-coverts 
mottled dusky and white : all the under part of the 
neck and body white : but the fore-part of the first 
a little mottled with dusky : rump white : tail the 
same as the rest of the upper part, barred and tipped 
with dusky : legs brown. Inhabits Cayenne." 
