. Arctic zoology .. . te,finely marked-with waved dufky bars : legs green. Length four-teen inches. Weight only fix ounces. , Inhabits the province of New Tork; and in every latitude ofRuJ/ia and Sibiria^ in plenty. Is found in Europe as high as Sond-mor *. 469 379. Green-shank. Flags. CN. With a bill two inches long-, and dufky : head and neck ftreak-ed with black and white : breaft white, with round brown fpots:belly and fides white ; the laft marked with tranfverfe bars of browr^:back and coverts of the wings cinereous, with great fagittal fpotsof black : primaries dufky, with a tranfverfe
. Arctic zoology .. . te,finely marked-with waved dufky bars : legs green. Length four-teen inches. Weight only fix ounces. , Inhabits the province of New Tork; and in every latitude ofRuJ/ia and Sibiria^ in plenty. Is found in Europe as high as Sond-mor *. 469 379. Green-shank. Flags. CN. With a bill two inches long-, and dufky : head and neck ftreak-ed with black and white : breaft white, with round brown fpots:belly and fides white ; the laft marked with tranfverfe bars of browr^:back and coverts of the wings cinereous, with great fagittal fpotsof black : primaries dufky, with a tranfverfe white bar: feconda-ries white : the middle feathers of the tail cinereous, barred withblacki outmofl white: legs dufky: toes femipalmated. Lengthfourteen inches. Inhabits Nevo Tork,—Bl. Mus» 380. Semipai. MATEB. Flacev CN. With red bill and legs ; the plumage moft intenfely 381. Obferved by Stdlsr in the iflands towards America. * Strom, 235» Place. A. EUROFEAH 47© EUROPEAN WOODCOCK, AND GREAT ^. EUROPEAN WooneocK, Br, Zool. ii. N* 178.—Le Beoaffe, De Buffon, —Pl,^,—Latham, n\.Scolopax rufticola. MorkuUa, Faun, Saec- N r/o.—Lev. Mus.—Bl. Mus. CN. With a reddifh cinereous front: hind part of the head barredwith reddilh brown : pper part of the body and wings barredwith ruft-color, black, and grey : bread and belly dirty white,barred with dufky lines. Weight twelve Inhabits, during fummer, Scandinavia, Lapland, and Iceland. Mi- grates foutherly at approach of winter. Common in Ruffia and Sibi~ria, but only in the time of migration; and breeds in the northernmarfhes and j^r^ic flats. B, Great Snipe, Br, Zool. ii. N» 188.—Latham, Media, Fri/cb. tab. 228.—Lev. Mus. CN. With head divided lengthways by a teflaceous line, boundedon each fide by one of black; above and beneath each eye an-other: neck and breaft yellowifli white, marked with femicircularfpots of black: fides undulated with black: back and
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