. Arctic zoology .. . Enl. 818.—Lev. Mus.—Bl. Mus. ip With an incurvated bill, feven inches long : head, and upperpart of the wings, pale brown, fpotted with black : back white:tail white, barred with black : legs blueifh. Weight from twenty-two to thirty-feven Inhabits Europe, as high as Lapmark * and Iceland \; and is found on the vaft plains of Rujjta and Sibiria, quite to Kamtfchatka. Be Whimbrel, Br. Zool. ii. N° 177.—Scolopax Ph«opus. Windfpole. Spof. N° 169.—Latham, ^Courlieu, ou petit Courlis, De Buffin, viii. 27.—PI. Enl. 842.—Lev. Mus. f^ With a bill ne
. Arctic zoology .. . Enl. 818.—Lev. Mus.—Bl. Mus. ip With an incurvated bill, feven inches long : head, and upperpart of the wings, pale brown, fpotted with black : back white:tail white, barred with black : legs blueifh. Weight from twenty-two to thirty-feven Inhabits Europe, as high as Lapmark * and Iceland \; and is found on the vaft plains of Rujjta and Sibiria, quite to Kamtfchatka. Be Whimbrel, Br. Zool. ii. N° 177.—Scolopax Ph«opus. Windfpole. Spof. N° 169.—Latham, ^Courlieu, ou petit Courlis, De Buffin, viii. 27.—PI. Enl. 842.—Lev. Mus. f^ With a bill near three inches long : head marked lengthwaysby a whitifh line, bounded on each fide by one of black :neck, coverts of wings, and upper part of the back, pale brown,fpotted with black: lower part of the back and thebelly white : taillight brown, barred with black: legs blueifh grey. Weight Inhabits the fame places with the former. * LeemSj 249. f Brunnichi p» 49. XXXVIT. TTY 4&3. ■/C€^?9ZfZ€6a> ^M/ri^e^vr JV^364-. .J^^^^ti^ LITTLE WOODCOCK AND COMMON SNIPE. 463 XXXVII. SNIPE. Gen. Birds, LXVIL SN. With the upper mandible of the bill two inches and a half 365. Littlelong; the lower much fhorter : forehead cinereous; hind part Woodcock^black, with four tranfverfe yellowifli bars: from bill to the eye adufky line : chin white : under fide of the neck, breaft, Ibelly, andthighs, of a dull yellow, paleft on the belly : hind part of the neckblack, edged with yellowifh red : back, and lefler coverts, of thefame colors; reft of the coverts marked with zigzags of black anddull red : primaries dufky : inner coverts ruft-colored: tail black,tipped with brown : legs fhort, pale brown. Length, from tip ofthe bill to the end of the tail, eleven inches and a half. This fpecieshas entirely the form of the European^oodcoc]ii ; but Place. differs in fize and color. They appear in the province of New Yorkin the latter end o^ April, or beginning of May.
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