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oblong, of a dirty olive-colour, marked with dulky fpots. When
difturbed, in the breeding feafon, foars to a vaft height, making
a lingular bleating kind of noife; and when they defcend, dart
down with vaft rapidity. The male alfo (while his mate fits on
the eggs) often poifes himfelf on his wings, making fometimes a
whittling, and fometimes a drumming noife*. They feed on
fmall worms, and other infefts, which they find in the moift
ground; as alfo on fmall fnails ■, having found the laft whole
in the ftomachs of both this and the next fpecies. They are
dreffed without exenterating, as the Woodcock, and afe accounted
delicate.
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FINMARK SN.
Scolopax gallinaria, Muller, p. 23. N° 183.
Finmark Snipe, Ar£i* Zool. p. 471. D.
Descriptions V E R Y like the common Snipe, and the bill tuberculated in
the fame manner: but differs in the head being entirely
grey: legs yellow.
Place. Inhabits Finmark. -
8.
k JACK SNIPE.
Scolopax .Gallinula, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 244. 8— Scop. Ann. i. N» 13g.— Brun.
p. 163.— Mulkr, p. 23. N° itg — Frifch. t. 231.
La petite Becaffine, Brif. Orn. v. p. 303. 3. pi. 26. fig. 2_Buf. Oif.v'u.
p. 490.— PI. Enl. 884.
Gid, Jack Suipe, or Judcock, Raii Syn. p. 103. A. 3.— Will. Orn. p. 291.
— A llin, iii. pi. 86— Br. Zool. ii. N” 189. pi. 68.—ArH. Zool. N° 367.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
D escription. Q p H I S is half as big as the former, and weighs fcarce two
ounces : length eight inches and a half. Bill above an inch
• Br.ZooI.
and
and a half long, and black: crown" of the head black, tinged
with ruft-colour: over each eye a yellow ftreak: neck varied
with white, brown, and pale red : fcapulars narrow, long, and of
a brown colour, margined with yellow : the rump of a gloffy
blueiih. purple : belly and vent white: greater quills dulky :
tail browq, with tawny edges, and confifts of twelve feathers:
legs cinereous green.
This fpecies is either lefs common than the former, or not fo Place an.
well afcertained by the different voyagers ; as I cannot trace it Mahmr».
more fouth than Aleppo, where it is not uncommon*, and to the
north as far as lat. 80. 27 +. It is found both in Europe and
North America. I fufpect likewife, from a padage in Fermin 4,
that it inhabits Surinam■ The manners are much like thofe of
the laft fpecies,
* Ruffel Alep. p. 65.
f Phypps mentions a low flat ifle off Waygats, which “ abounds with a fin ail
Snipe, flmilar to the Jack Snipe in England” See Voy. p. 53.
t Hiß. Sarin, vol. ii. p. I Hit, igo.— He there talks of a large and a fmall
Snipe: the flrll is rufous, black, and alh-colour, mixed: bread and belly alh-
colouf: it is fmaller than the Partridge, and flies flowly, but runs quick. The
fmall one he defcribes much like ours; and fays, they are feen by thoufands on
the fea floret ; that it mud be a bad markfman that does Hot kill fixty at once,
with line diet; and that he has killed eighty-live with a Angle charge. The
flelh of both is accounted very delicate: but the lad is fo fmall that a man may
Atfely eat twenty at a meal.
V ol. IIE T Scolopax