. A history of British birds . sh-brown, spotted with darker brown ; breast, belly, and ventwhite ; legs and toes dark greenish-brown ; claws black. The whole length is eight inches to eight inches and ahalf; the length of the beak one inch and a half; from thecarpal joint to the end of the first quill-feather, which is thelongest, four inches and three-eighths. Females are on the average a trifle larger in size than themales, but not so bright in their colours. In the plumage ofwinter the reddish-brown parts are more inclined to ash-grey. Young birds have not the brilliant green and purple re
. A history of British birds . sh-brown, spotted with darker brown ; breast, belly, and ventwhite ; legs and toes dark greenish-brown ; claws black. The whole length is eight inches to eight inches and ahalf; the length of the beak one inch and a half; from thecarpal joint to the end of the first quill-feather, which is thelongest, four inches and three-eighths. Females are on the average a trifle larger in size than themales, but not so bright in their colours. In the plumage ofwinter the reddish-brown parts are more inclined to ash-grey. Young birds have not the brilliant green and purple re-flections observable in old birds. The nestling is of a stillricher brown than that of the Common Snipe already figured,and the bill is shorter, higher, and broader at the base. Varieties in this species are very uncommon, but a melan-ism is recorded by Mr. F. Bond (Zool. 1862, p. 8000) ashaving been shot near Staines. The difierences in the emargination of the breast-bone inthe Jack, and in the Common Snipe, are shown
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