JACK SNIPE. 
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with white, broadly margined with pale ochreous- 
yellow, and undulated on their middle surface with 
lines of chestnut-red, the pale edges forming four 
lines along the back ; the wings are greyish-black ; 
secondaries tipped with white, the coverts broadly 
tipped with white and tinted with ochreous ; the 
long tertials are edged with pale greyish-white, and 
undulated on their outer webs with pale chestnut- 
brown; the tail consists of twelve lanceolate fea- 
thers, and exhibits a form more wedge-shaped than 
most of the others, the colour is blackish-brown, 
edged with pale chestnut -brown ; the belly and 
under parts pure white, on the flanks dashed with 
greyish -black, and tinted with brown ; the axillary 
feathers white, clouded irregularly with blackish- 
grey ; feet and legs greenish-grey. 
S. gallinago and major. 
