Scolopax Drumhondii, Swains. 
(not figured.) 
“This Snipe.” according to Dr. Richardson, whose account of it I copy, 
“is common in the Fur Countries up to latitude 05°, and is also found in the 
recesses of the Rocky Mountains. Its manners are in all respects similar to 
those of the European Snipes. It is intermediate in size between the Sc. 
major and gallinago ; it has a much longer bill than the latter, and two 
more tail-feathers. Its head is divided by a pale central stripe, as in Sc. 
gallinula and major ; its dorsal plumage more distinctly striped than that 
of the latter ; and the outer tail-feather is a quarter of an inch shorter than 
that of S. Douglassi. 
Scolopax Drummondii, Drummond' s Snipe, Swains, and Rich. F. Bor. Ainer., vol. ii. 
p. 400. 
Drummond’s Snipe, Scolopax Drummondii, And. Orn. Biog., vol. v. p. 319. 
“Fur Countries to lat. 55°. Rocky Mountains.” 
“ Description of a specimen killed on the Rocky Mountains. Colour: — • 
Dorsal plumage and wings mostly brownish-black ; the top of the head, 
scapulars, interscapulars, intermediate coverts, posterior greater ones, and 
tertiaries, reflecting green and mottled, or barred with yellowish-brown; this 
colour also forming stripes from the forehead to the nape, over the eyes to 
the sides of the neck, and more broadly on the exterior edges of the scapu- 
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