. A general history of birds . d. 8vo. ii. Becassine du Cap de B. Esp. Buf. vii. 494. PL enl. 270. * Comes generally the end of November, and departs sometimes as late as the 19th ofApril.—Lin. Trans, i. 123. But Dr. Heysham has found this, as well as the CommonSnipe, in Cumberland, throughout the year. f Pliypps mentions a low flat Isle off Waygats, which abounds with a small Snipe,similar to the Jack-Snipe in England. See Voy. p. 53. % Russ. Alep. p. 65. || Hist. Surin. ii. 189. 190. He talks there of a large and small Snipe ; the first isrufous, black and ash-colour, mixed ; breast a
. A general history of birds . d. 8vo. ii. Becassine du Cap de B. Esp. Buf. vii. 494. PL enl. 270. * Comes generally the end of November, and departs sometimes as late as the 19th ofApril.—Lin. Trans, i. 123. But Dr. Heysham has found this, as well as the CommonSnipe, in Cumberland, throughout the year. f Pliypps mentions a low flat Isle off Waygats, which abounds with a small Snipe,similar to the Jack-Snipe in England. See Voy. p. 53. % Russ. Alep. p. 65. || Hist. Surin. ii. 189. 190. He talks there of a large and small Snipe ; the first isrufous, black and ash-colour, mixed ; breast and belly ash-colour ; smaller than the Par-tridge; flies slowly, but runs quick. The small one he describes much like ours; and saysthey are seen by thousands on the sea shores; that it must be a bad marksman that does notkill sixty at once, with fine shot ; and that he has killed 85 with a single charge. The fleshof both is accounted very delicate ; but the last is so small that a man may safely eat twentyat a meal. ff//t - /////r. SNIPE. 199 Keuvitt, Sparrm. Voy. cap. i. , Tern. Man. Ed. 2d. Anal. p. Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 138. Id. Sup. 244. SIZE of our Snipe; length ten inches. Bill one inch and threequarters, reddish brown ; crown of the head ash-colour, crossedwith streaks of black; down the middle a pale band, from the baseof the bill to the hindhead ; round the eyes white, ending in a streakbehind ; the under part bounded by a black line ; the rest of thehead and neck rufous; at the top of the breast a narrow band ofblack; from this all the under parts are dusky white; the upperpart of the body, wings, and tail, ash-colour, transversely wavedwith black, most regular on the coverts; each feather of the outerones marked with four or live yellowish bars on the inner web, andas many round spots of the same on the outer; the tail feathers arealso marked in the same manner; the four middle ones having thebars of the yellowish colour, and the four
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