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Description.
Place*.
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Pl. LXXXI.
Description*
Scolopax Capenfis, Lin. S_yß. i. p, 246. 14.
La Becaffine du Cap de B. lilpcraiicc, Hrif Or«. App. p. 1.41. pi. 6.— Buß.
O f vii. p. 494.— pi. Pul. 270.
^ IZ E ° f ° ur Snipe: length ten inches. Bill one inch and three
quarters 4 colour of it reddifh brown : the crown of the head
is afh-colour, crofied with Breaks, of b la ck d ow n the middle is
a pale band from the bafe of the bill to the hind head 3 round the
eyes white, ending in a Break behind : the under part is bounded
by a black line ; the reft of the head and neck rufous : at the top
of the breaft a narrow band of black ; from this all the under
parts are dufky white : the upper part of the body, wings, and
tail, are afh-colour, tranfverfely waved and crofied with black 1
moft regular on the wing coverts, each feather of which is
marked with four or five y-ellowifh bars on the inner web, and as.
many round fpots of the fame on the outer: the tail feathers
are alfo marked in the fame manner 4 the four middle feathers
having bars of the yellowifh colour, and the four outer ones on
each fide fpots,, as in the quills : the inner edge of the wing, in,
the courfe of the fcapulars, ftreaked with w h ite le g s dufky.
Inhabits the Cape o f Good Hope.
T H E top of the head, throat, and fore part o f the neck, are
rufous chefnut: chin almoft white: the eye furrounded with
black,.and placed in a large bed of white, pointing to the hind
head; the reft of the head, neck, and breaft, black : the back,,
rump, wing coverts, and fecond quills, dark olive green, elegantly
mottled and barred with dufky : fcapulars white : the two
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middle tail feathers like the back ; the others, and greater quills,
dufky black, marked with large orange fpots, five or fix on each
feather: belly, thighs, and vent, white : bill and legs pale brown.
The defeription and figure of this variety is taken from a
painting by the late Mr. Edwards, now in my pofleffion.
La Becafiine de la Chine, B u f.O if. vii. p. 495.—-i7. Enl. 881. 9,
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C M A L L E R than the common Snipe: length ten inches. Bill Description.
yellow, with a dufky tip : top of the head brown, mixed with
black: down the middle of the crown, and over each eye, a ftripe
of white: the chin white: the reft of the head and neck mixed
grey and pale brown : the fore part of the neck is ftreaked perpendicularly;
and the back part, and all round the bottom, tranfverfely
: the upper part of the body and wings delicately mixed
and waved with blueifh grey, brown, pale rufous, and black :
breaft and- under parts white : quills dufky, marked with oval
cream-coloured fpots : tail blue grey and dufky mixed, with
three or four roundifh cream-coloured fpots on each feather, fur-
rounded with black: legs grey.
Inhabits China. Place.
La Becafline de Madagafcar, Buf, Oif. vii. p. 495.— P/. Enl. 922.
T E N G T H ten inches. Bill'of a brownifh red'; ftrait, except
towards the end, where it bends a trifle downwards : round
the eye white, palling a little way down the neck on each fide ;
above this a black ftreak : the chin white : reft of the head and
neck rufous: the lower part of the neck and back undulated
T 2 with
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