Place.
22.
SEMIPALMAT-
ED SN.
Description.
Place.
23-
STONE SN.
Description.
Place.
24.
YELLOWSHANKS.
This was met with at Hudfon's Bay; and, on our further acquaintance
with it, is not unlikely to prove a mere variety of the
Redjhank.
Semipalmated Snipe, Aril. Zeal, N° 380.
J ^ E N G T H fourteen inches. Bill two inches long, dulky:
head and neck ftreaked black and white: bread: white,
marked with round black fpots : belly and fides white j the laft
crofied with tranfverfe bars of brown'. back and wing coverts
cinereous, with great fagittal fpots o f black: primaries dufky,
crofled with a white bar : fecondaries white : the middle feathers
of the tail cinereous, barred with black ; outmoft white: legs
dufky: toes femipalmated.
Inhabits New Tork.
Stone Snipe, Arc!. Zool. N° 376.
W IC E the fize of a Snipe. Bill black : head, neck, breaft,
back, fcapulars, and greater coverts, fpotted black and white :
rump and tail barred with the fame : primaries dufky : legs long
and yellow.
Obferved in autumn, feeding on the fands on the lower part
o f Chateaux Bay, and are called Stone Curlews• Are perpetually
nodding their heads.
Yellowfhanks, Aril. Zool. N° 378.
J ^ E N G T H eleven inches. Bill flender, black, a little bent
at the end : head, hind part of the neck, back, and greater
6 wing
Description.
wing coverts, dirty white, fpotted with black: lefler coverts plain
brown : primaries dufky : bread: and fore part of the neck fpotted
black and white: belly and tail coverts white: tail barred
brown and white: legs yellow.
Appears in the province of New Tork in autumn.
Nodding Snipe, Aril. Zool. N° 370.
g I Z E of the common Snipe. Bill flender, long, black: crown
and upper part o f the back dufky, ftreaked with red : cheeks
cinereous, ftreaked with black | neck and bread: cinereous, mixed
with ruft-colour, and marked with obfeure dark fpots: belly
white: thighs fpotted with black : lefler wing coverts afh-colour-
cd i greater dufky, edged with brown: quids dufky; the fecondaries
tipped with white: lower part of the back white, fpotted
with black: tail barred black and white; tip reddifh: legs green-
ifh: the toes bordered by a narrow plain membrane.
Obferved in Chateaux Bay, on the coaft of Labrador, in September.
Are perpetually nodding their heads.
Black Snipe, Aril. Zool. N° 381.
B I L L and legs red: plumage mod: intenfely black.
Obferved by Steller in the iflands towards America.
Red-breaded Snipe, A ril. Zool. N° 368.
Q I Z E of the common Snipe. Bill like that bird; above two inches
long: head, neck, and fcapulars, varied with black, afh-
colour, and red: fore part of the neck and breaft ferruginous,
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Place,
ZSNODDING
SN.
Description.
Place,
26.
BLACK SN.
Description.)
Place.
27.
RED-BREASTED
SN.
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