thinly fpotted with black: coverts and fecondaries dark cinereous
; the laft tipped with white: back and rump white, concealed
by the fcapulars : tail barred dulky and white: legs .dark green ;
middle and outer toe connetted by a fmall web.
Place. Inhabits the coaffis of New York.
23.
BROWN SN.
D escription*
P lace.
Brown Snipe, Aril. Zool, N* 369*
Lev, Muf,
, C I Z E of the laft : length eleven inches. Bill two inches and
® a half long, and brown: between the bafe of it and the eye
a white bar; and above the eye a fpeck of white : the head, neck,
and fcapulars, of a fine uniform cinereous brown, marked in a few
places with black; fides pf the head and fore part of the neck
paleft : wing coverts and prime quills dark brown j lhaft of the
firft quill white: fecondaries pale brown, edged with white :
back white: rump and tail barred black and white : bread: mottled
white and brown : belly white: legs dark brown: hind toe placed
high up, and pretty long.
Found with the former.
29.
ASH-COLOUR-
ED SN.
Description.
T E N G T H eleven inches. Bill more than an inch and a
half long, ftrait, except at the tip, where it is a trifle bent}
colour black: upper part of the head, neck, and body, alb-colour
1 between the bill and eye a whitifh mark : chin and fore
part of the neck white, mottled a little with brown on the
throat: breaft and fides of the body alb-colour: middle of the
belly white: legs yellowilh green.
Inhabits Eimeo and Palmerjion Ides. In the collection of Sir
JoJeph Banks.
Scolopax fufca, Lin. Syft. i. p. 243, ; .
La Barge brune, Brij. On. v. p. 276. 4. pi. 23. fig. 2.— Buf. Oif. vii.
p. 508.— PI, Enl. 875.
Duflty Snipe, Aril. Zool, p. 471. 6.
T E N G T H almoft twelve inches. Bill two inches and one third,
a little bent downwards at the point; colour black; the bafe
of the lower mandible pale: plumage on the upper part of the
body dulky black; the edges of the feathers whitilh: crown
darkeft, and plain : fcapulars and lefler wing coverts marked with
whitilh fpots on the margins: lower part of the back and rump
white : cheeks, throat, and fore part of the neck, deep alh-colour:
from thence to the vent the fame, but growing lighter as it approaches
the laft, and here and there mixed and edged with
white: quills brown, paleft within, and fpotted with grey on the
outer margin, and fome of thé fecondaries on both webs: the
two middle tail feathers dulky brown, marked with tranfverfe
whitilh ftreaks; the others brown, crofted in the fame manner with
white : legs brown.
Breeds within the Arffic circle. Migrates into Ruffia and Si-
liria.
Scolopax ciiierea, N. C. Petr. vol. xix. 6. t. 19. (J. Gueldenjiaedt.)
Terek Avofet, Aril. Zool, p. 502.
jT E N G T H nine inches. The bill bends upwards from the
bafe, and a little downwards at the tip, and is nearly two
X 2 inches
Place.
3°*
DUSKY SN.
Description.
Place.
3r#
TEREK SN.
Description.