broad external lateral margins of rich huffy yellow; wing-
coverts dusky black, edged with pale brown; primary quill-
feathers dusky black, secondaries the same, but eirding in a
white point; tertials brownish black, spotted and streaked
with rieh reddish brown; upper taikmverts brown, edged
with buff; tail. feathers greyish black; cheeks, chin,And
neck, ’greyish brown^sppfted with darker brown;. breast,
beHy, and- VCIit white ; legs and toes dark greenish' brown ;
claws black.
^ Thehvhole lehgth.eight'jnches. to eight inches and a half,
rhe length of the beak on'e inch mil a-half;' from’the carnal
jomt to thejend of the first quill-feather, Which is the longest,
tour inches and three^eighths.
Females are larger in-sire titan the H | H | no**«
b i ) ^ t m their cdoms:’ In the p lu n g e of wirterffeiredt
dish brown parts are more inclined to ash grey.
Young birds hareinot the brilliant green and purple re-
nations observable-in, old
g r a l l a t o b .e s . s c o l o p a c id a :.
SABINE’S SN IP E .
Sabi.n'Pt^Sfiipe,
Bécassine Sabine,
B ewick.^ Brit.’Birds, .uol»;ii.-p. 53.
Fi.EM.Brit. An. p. IQS..
sSe"lby, Bjit. OrnilK’vol. ii. p. 118.'
Britt Veft. p. 204.’
Brit$4,Birds, p. 100. ,
Godi.D, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. ,
Temmi Man.' d’Ornith'. 'vol. iv. p. 432,
. T h is Snipe was first made known by the late N. A.
Vigors, E s q i n the fourteenth yolutne .of thé Transactions of
the Linneanf,%)ci,e^tBnd it Ü due to -that eminent Ornithologist
to introducé it here inChis.'own words.
« This species is?'at «nee distinguished from eyéry other
European species of Scolopvax,i by the total absence of white"
from its .plumage; !||$ o f ,any qf‘those lighter tints of ferruginous
iyellow, which-extend möre or. less in stripes along the
head-and^bac^af -tHém all. In this respect it exhibits a