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The legs are extreamly long, and very {lender3 they are naked for more than an 
inch above the knee, and their colour is greenilh, but with a tinge of blue among it: 
the toes are long and {lender, and the claws are black : the hinder toe is fhort and in- 
confiderable, and the outer one is connected by a membrane to the middle one a great 
way down. 
This is a native of England, and of mod; other parts of Europe 3 and mod: of the 
authors, who have written on birds, have defcribed it. Gefner calls it Glottis and 
Limofa Veterum 3 Aldrovand and Willughby, Pluvialis major 3 Sloane, Glottis five 
Pluviali's major. 
Numenius capite quatuor lineis fufecis notato, 
\The Numenius , with four brown Jireaks on the head. 
Stripe, 
This is a fmall but a beautiful and a delicate bird 3 it’s weight is about four ounces 3 
the male is fomewhat fmaller, and our fportfmen diftinguifh it under the name of the 
Jack Snipe, the Gid, and the Jaddock 3 nor are there wanting authors who have de¬ 
fcribed it as a different fpecies. 
The head is fmall and round, and is elegantly variegated by the four longitudinal 
ftreaks, which run above and below the eyes, from the front to the back part of it: 
between the eyes and the roftrum there is a fpace of brown juft under the beak 5 it is 
white. 
The neck is variegated with brown, and a ferrugineous-reddifh 3 the bread: and 
belly are whitifh: the feathers which fall on each fide from the fhoulders are very 
long-, they reach almoft to the infertion of the tail, and are^very beautifuls their mid¬ 
dle is black, and their tips and edges of a bright and glofiy ferrugineous-brown : the 
feathers which grow on the back are brown, variegated with white, difpofed in tranf- 
verfe lines: thofe which cover the bafe of the tail are brown, and have tranfverfe lines 
of black. 
The wings are not very large 3 the long feathers are twenty-four in each, and are 
brown, with more or lefs white on the larger: the tail is fhort, and it appears indeed 
fhorter than it really is, being hid under the feathers which fall over it at the origin : 
it is compofed of twelve feathers, variegated with a paler and a deeper brown in al¬ 
ternate bands, and with fome white toward the tips of fome of them : the beak is 
long and {lender 5 the legs are greenifh. 
It is a native of mold parts of Europe, but in many is a bird of paflage pnly 3 it is, 
in general, fuch with us 5 but, as the woodcock will fometimes {day and brded with us, 
this does fo much oftener. It is fond of wet places, and it’s flefh is delicate, and 
much efteemed at table. All the writers on birds have defcribed it. Gefner calls it 
Gallinago five Rufticola minor 3 Aldrovand, Scolopax five Gallinago minor 3 Willugh- 
by, Ray, and others, limply, Gallinago minor. When it breeds with us, it builds on 
the ground by the fides of brooks, and lays four or five eggs. 
Numenius urrhopygio albo , re&ricibus nigris bafe albis . 
The Numenius, with a white rump , and the tail-feathers blacky but white 
at the bafe . 
This is of the bignefs of a common pigeon: the head is fmall, oblong, and depref- 
fed on the crown: the eyes are fmall, but their afpedt is bright and piercing 3 the 
beak is very long, {lender, and pointed obtufely 3 it’s colour is black, and the noftrils 
are very confpicuous on it. 
The head, neck, and breaft are of a yellowifh colour, but variegated in an elegant 
manner with tranfverfe lines of brown : the belly is white, but it is variegated alfo in 
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