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BRITISH BIRDS. 
the nape. The neck is white, fpotted with brown 
and pale red. The fcapulars and tertials are very- 
long and beautiful ; on their exterior edges they 
are bordered with a llripe of yellow, and the inner 
webs are ftreaked and marked with bright ruft co- 
lour on a deep brown, or rather bronze ground, 
refleffing in different lights a fliining purple or 
green. The quills are dulky. The rump is of a 
gloffy violet or blueifh purple ; the belly and vent 
white. The tail confifts of twelve pointed feathers 
of a dark brown, edged with ruff colour ; the legs 
are of a dirty or dull green. 
The Judcock is of nearly the fame charafter as 
the Snipe, it feeds upon the fame kinds of food, 
lives and breeds in the fame fwamps and marflies, 
and conceals itfelf from the fportfman with as great 
circumfpeffion, among the ruihes or tufts of coarfe 
grafs. It, however, differs in this particular, that 
it feldom rifes from its lurking place until it is ak 
moft trampled upon, and, when fluihed, does not 
fly to fo great a diftance. It .is as much effeemed 
as the Snipe, and is cooked in the fame manner^ 
The eggs are not bigger than thofe of a lark ; in 
other refpefts they are very like thofe of the Snipe^ 
