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SCOLOPACIDiE. 
is greenish-black, fading towards the tip to wood- 
brown, and measures five inches in length ; the lores 
are green ; the head, throat, and back of the upper- 
part of the neck, are pale hair-brown ; the feathers 
margined with white, and giving a spotted appear- 
ance ; on the fore part of the neck are two narrow 
transverse bars, and a large irregular spot of white ; 
lower parts of the neck, and the whole of the under 
parts, of a hair-brownish colour, the margins of the 
feathers having greenish reflections ; upper parts of 
the body, wings, and tail, glossy olive-green, with 
faint changeable reflections of purplish-red upon the 
scapulars and wing-coverts ; legs and toes blackish- 
green.” 
SCOLOPACID^. 
The Scolopacidte , typically represented by the Snipes 
and Woodcocks, is well seen in our British list, by 
a numerous series of forms and species, all extremely 
interesting, and is, we believe, a favourite family 
with almost every ornithologist. By far the greatest 
proportion of them frequent extensive marshes, or 
the shores and h ank s of our coasts and rivers, retir- 
ing, for a time, to the inland moors or fens, to breed 
and rear their young. A few only are partial to 
woods and thick covers, where, however, they are to 
be found in marshy glades, or the moist and more 
