104 SCOLOPACINiE. SCOLOPAX. RUSTICOLA. 
species, on its being flushed, is at first performed in a zigzag 
manner, until it attains some distance, when it ascends and 
flies high. Its cry is shrill and harsh. 
Common Snipe. Moor or Mire Snipe. Heather Bliter, 
Bleater, or Blutter. 
Scolopax Gallinago, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 244.— -Scolopax 
Gallinago, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. — Scolopax Gallinago, Temm. 
Man. d’Ornith, ii. 676. — Scolopax Gallinago, Bleater Snipe, 
MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 
207. Scolopax Gallinula. Jud Snipe. 
Tail pointed, of twelve feathers ; secondary quills acutely 
pointed ; bill about a fourth longer than the head ; a longitu- 
dinal black band, slightly variegated with red on the head, 
and on each side a reddish-white band, in part divided by a 
dusky line ; on the back three longitudinal bands of black 
glossed with purple and green and variegated with red, and 
four bands of pale yellowish-red ; the sides longitudinally 
streaked with brown ; axillar feathers white, with some faint 
grey elongated lines. 
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This species arrives in the end of October, and departs in 
March and April. It is generally dispersed over the country, 
residing in marshy places, by the margins of rivers and lakes, 
in ditches, and, in short, in the same places as the common 
snipe. It is seldom that several individuals are seen together, 
and it is not nearly so numerous as the species just mention- 
ed. On being flushed it flies off low, without emitting any 
cry, until about sixty or eighty yards off, when it rises, pro- 
ceeds a short way, and comes down with rapidity in the first 
suitable place that occurs. Its flesh is equally esteemed with 
that of the other. 
Jack Snipe. Judcock. Jid. 
Scolopax Gallinula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 244.— Scolopax 
Gallinula, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 715. — Scolopax Gallinula, 
Temm. Man. d’Ornith. ii. 678. — Scolopax Gallinula, Jud 
Snipe, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, iv. 
GENUS CVIII. BUSTXCOLA. WOODCOCK. 
This genus, of which only one species is known to me, 
differs little from Scolopax. The body is fuller, the neck 
rather short, the head oblong, compressed, and rounded 
