RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 
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pale brown ; rump and tail-coverts, of a very light 
barred with dark brown ; tail, even, except the 
0 middle feathers, which are a little the longest; 
1 pale ferruginous, elegantly marbled n ith dark 
'' tke four first primaries black on the outer edge ; 
f ” ®. lining and lon er parts of the wings, bright 
ciiginous : belly and vent, light rust colour, with a 
"I® of lake. 
tile I ^®o*olo diflfers in wanting the bars of black on 
hof The hill docs not acquire its full length 
'5'-® the third year. 
ayg ’out fifty different species of the sco/opax genus 
Sg ooiinierated by naturalists. These are again, by 
the ’ ®®Porated into three classes, or suhgeiiera ; viz. 
ijo ®^>'0'ght-hilled, or snipes; those nith hills bent 
sii^^O ards, or the curlews ; and those whose hills are 
shy ^ upn-ards, or godwits. The whole are a 
iajY ,'‘0'id, and solitary tribe, frequenting those vast 
fv swamps, and morasses, that frequently pi-evail 
Hve * ^'o’oity of the ocean, and on the borders of large 
ofth!' are also generally migratory, on account 
•■eo-i * P®‘''odical freezing of those places in the northern 
are ^' bere they procure their food. The godwits 
fou P^r^mularly fond of salt marshes ; and are rarely 
•R countries remote from the sea. 
GENUS 1,111.— SCOLOPAX. 
SUBGENUS 1. — AtACHOltAMPIIVSf LEACH. 
233. SCOLOPAX GRISEA, GMELIN. 
^OVEBORACENSIS, WILSON. — REB-BREASTED SNIPE. 
WILSON, PLATE XLVII. FIG. I. 
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bird has a considerable resemblance to the 
«qJ snipe, not only in its general form, size, and 
"’hieV*^’- bkewise in the excellence of its flesh, 
gfg 's in high estimation. It differs, however, 
"■'y from the common snipe in its manners, and in 
