. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. iTo Placi SPOTTED SNIPE, rpotted with rufous white: lefler wing coverts brown; in the middle pa er, and marked with a few fpots of white: larger coverts plain alh- color : quills black, widi wlute ihafts, the bafes of them, from the fourth, white for one-third of their length: rump white: thewhole of the under parts, from the chin to the vent, fine rufous bay, waved acrofs with duikylines: tail feathers white at the bafe, and dufky the reft of their length; legs black. Inliabits Hudfon's Bay, with the laft. Communicated by Mr Latham. , ' 374. Sp
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. iTo Placi SPOTTED SNIPE, rpotted with rufous white: lefler wing coverts brown; in the middle pa er, and marked with a few fpots of white: larger coverts plain alh- color : quills black, widi wlute ihafts, the bafes of them, from the fourth, white for one-third of their length: rump white: thewhole of the under parts, from the chin to the vent, fine rufous bay, waved acrofs with duikylines: tail feathers white at the bafe, and dufky the reft of their length; legs black. Inliabits Hudfon's Bay, with the laft. Communicated by Mr Latham. , ' 374. SpOTTtDr Place. |i ifir i" * SN. With , very flender bill, a little more than two inches long- orbits ch,n and throat, white i from bill to eye a line of white • cheAs and under Hde of the „eck white, with fl,ort ftreaks of J dufty color: crown and upper part of the neck brown, with white ftreaks: coverts of the wings, primaries, fecondaries, and fcapulars, black, elegant triangular fpots of white: tail barred with black .nd wh,te: breaft and belly white: legs long; and in the live bird of a rich yellow; fometimes red. L.«ot„, to the tip of the tail, near fixteen inches. Arrives in Hudfo„>s Bay in fpring. Feeds on fmall Ihell-filh and worms i and frequents the banks of rivers. Called there, by the natives, from its noife, S 'a-Jhew, by the Englijh, Tellow^legs. Retires ,n autumn. Makes a flop in the province oi New York on Its return, but does not winter there. This, and feveral other ^eces of Snipes and Sandpipers, are called, in North Amrica, Humilities. * Lefler. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. London : Printed for Robert Faulder . ..
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