BROWN SNIPE. 
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the neck is a patch of white, mixed with black ; the back, scapulars, 
and wing- coverts, are of a brownish slate-colour, dashed with cinereous ; 
quills black ; the under parts of the body slate colour ; the sides a little 
barred with white ; behind the thighs, the vent, and under tail coverts, 
white ; the rump is black ; upper tail coverts white ; tail black ; legs 
black. 
The female is rather less ; the plumage not so dark, and the feathers 
of the body above and beneath margined with grey, greatly so on the 
wing coverts ; the lower part of the rump, as well as the tail coverts, 
are white. 
Young birds are said to want the white mark on the neck, *and the 
feet have a reddish tinge.* 
These birds appear on our coast in winter, particularly in the West 
of England, but are most plentiful in Ireland, where they are taken in 
nets placed across the rivers, and are esteemed good eating : they are in 
greatest abundance in those rivers that empty themselves into the 
northern part of the Irish channel. 
It is said to be easily tamed. They breed far north, and return south- 
ward in autumn. In Shetland they are called Horra Geese. They are 
common at Hudson’s Bay, and probably breed there. We are informed 
some of these birds breed in Ireland : however that niay be, the greater 
part retire more northward for that purpose. 
BROAD BILL. — A name for the Shoveller. 
BRONZIE. — A name for the- Cormorant. 
BRAMBLE FINCH. — A name for the Brambling. 
BRAZILIAN CURLEW. — A name for the young of the Ibis. 
BROOK OUZEL. — A name for the Bilcock and Dipper. 
BROWN-HEADED GULL. — The young of the Laughing Gull. 
BROWN-HEADED DUCK. — A name for the Golden Eye. 
BROWN LINNET. — A name for the Linnet. 
BROWN SANDPIPER. — A name for the Sandpiper. 
BROWN SNIPE (^Scolopax grisea, Gmelin.) 
Scolopax grisea, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 658 Ind. Orn. 2. p. 724, 33 Temm. 2. p. 
649. — Brown Snipe, Arct. Zool. 2. No. 369. — Lath. Syn. 5. p. 154. 28. — Flem. 
p. 106. 
The weight of this species is three ounces and a quarter; length, 
from the apex of the bill to the end of the tail, eleven inches ; to the 
end of the middle toe thirteen inches and a half. 
Bill two inches and a half long, rather inclining downwards at the point, 
not so slender as that of the common snipe, and spreads a little broad 
