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Bill black ; lcg.s yenowiili-gref'n ; body cinereous ; fpot 
behind the bill and eyes, chin, throat and middle of 
the belly white. Ajh-aloured Snipe, 
Inhabits Palmerjion IJland : ii inches long. 
Bill a little incurved at the tip ; chin with brown ftripcs. 
Bill, legs, wing-coverts and quill-feathers brown; head, 
neck and fhoulders brown-alh fpoUed with black ; 
back and belly white. Brown Snipe, 
Inhabits the lea coafts of New York; it inches long. 
Btind between the bill and e^'vs and fir ip c each fide above the 
eyes white ; fccondary edged with white ; brea^ 
varied with white and brown tail- and' rump with black and 
W’liite lines ; back-toe high, long. 
Varied with black, cinereous and red; back and belly 
white ; wings cinereous ; tail barred with white and 
black. ' Rei.breajied Snipe. ^ 
Inhabits Ntxa York : ftze of S. gallinago. 
Bill and legs brown ; fore-part of the neck ferruginous with 
black fpots. 
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Bill and legs red ; body black. Blaci Snipe. 
Inhabits the illands betsveen Northern AJia and America. 
Bill black ; legs greenlOi ; body pinereous ; crown and up- 
per part of the back dulky red, ftreaked, lower white 
fpotted with black. ' Nodding Snipe. 
Bthabits I.abradore: lizc of S. gallinago; w continually nod- 
ding the head. 
Cheeks cinereous ftreaked with black ; netk and breajt mixed 
cinereous and rufty, with dulky IpQts ; belly white ; lefter 
coing-coverts cinereous, greater dulky edged with brown ; 
qu-ill-Jeathers the fccondary tipt with white; tail 
with black and white lines, reddilh at the tip. 
Bill blaick ; legs yellow ; body whitifti fpotted with black ; 
throat and breaft varied with black and white ; belly 
and tail-coverts white. Yellow-flicenb. 
Inhabits A'«sd York in the autumn ; 1 1 Inches long. 
rftrt a little bent at the tip; Icflcr wing-coverts bro\yn ; pn- 
niary quill-Jeathers dufky ; tail w’ith brown and white lines. 
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