. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . breast, andsides ; and those of the belly spotted with the same, butthe middle of it is plain v/hite : quills dusky : tail red-dish, the two middle feathers plain, the others barredwith black: legs black. He adds, This is a rarespecies. A fine specimen of it was shot in Lancashire,now in the Leverian museum •, said also to have been metwith in Kent.* * The author has seen three specimens of a large kind of Snipecalled, by some sportsmen, from being always found alone, theSolitary Snipe. They weighed the same as the above-mentioned,b
. A history of British birds : the figures engraved on wood . breast, andsides ; and those of the belly spotted with the same, butthe middle of it is plain v/hite : quills dusky : tail red-dish, the two middle feathers plain, the others barredwith black: legs black. He adds, This is a rarespecies. A fine specimen of it was shot in Lancashire,now in the Leverian museum •, said also to have been metwith in Kent.* * The author has seen three specimens of a large kind of Snipecalled, by some sportsmen, from being always found alone, theSolitary Snipe. They weighed the same as the above-mentioned,but differed in sc«ne slight particulars, measuring only twelveinches in length, and from tip about nineteen. The upperparts of the plumage were nearly like those of the CommonSnipe: the breast, sides, belly, and vent white, spotted, barred,and undulated with black. It is not clearly ascertained whetherthis be a distinct species of Snipe, or whether it acquires its bulkand change of plumage from age, and its solitary habits from ceas-ing to BRITISH BIRDS, ts
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