SCO LOP AX GALLINAGO. 
COMMON SNIPE. 
Generic Character. 6'^^' Scolopax rufticola. 
Synonyms. 
ScoLOPAx Gallinago. Lift, Sy ft, i. p, 244. 7. 
Orn 2. p. 715. 6. 
Snipe. Br. Zool 2. 187. tah. 68 Ib.foL 121. Arcl. 
ZooL 2, 366. Laih. Syn. 5. 134. 
6. Mont. Orn. Di^^ F0L2, Bewick'^ 
Br. Birds ^ Pt, 2, p, 75. 
TThIS 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 haz;el ; 
tail compofed of fourteen feathers ; legs fiender, varying in 
colour in different fubje^ls, fome being of a light green, and 
others of a dark flate colour ; toes long and delicately llender. 
The fexes are not difcoverable by their plumage. 
The haunts of the Snipe are moil generally in places that 
are frequently over-flowed with water, or by the fides of 
running flreams, where the ground is fufficiently foft to be 
penetrated by its bill ; it is a fliy bird, and by no means cafy 
of approach ; when it conceives itfelf in fecurity, it is conti- 
nually pacing the ground, at which time its tail is frequently 
moved 
