. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . ; chin,throat, and breast, pale dusky yellowish or reddish, spottedand barred with black on each feather. Back above, duskyreddish or yellowish brown, spotted and barred with blackjon each feather; on the lower part tinged with grey. The wings have the first quill feather the longest. Thegreater and lesser wing coverts are dusky brown, partiallytinted with pale ferruginous or yellowish brown on eachfeather; primaries, dusky black, the shafts also black;tertiaries, dusky brown, partially marked across with paleyellowish brown on each fe
. A history of British birds. By the Rev. Morris .. . ; chin,throat, and breast, pale dusky yellowish or reddish, spottedand barred with black on each feather. Back above, duskyreddish or yellowish brown, spotted and barred with blackjon each feather; on the lower part tinged with grey. The wings have the first quill feather the longest. Thegreater and lesser wing coverts are dusky brown, partiallytinted with pale ferruginous or yellowish brown on eachfeather; primaries, dusky black, the shafts also black;tertiaries, dusky brown, partially marked across with paleyellowish brown on each feather; greater and lesser underwing coverts, brownish black. The tail, which consists oftwelve feathers, is black on the inner half, ferruginous browntowards the tip, spotted and barred with black; the twocentre feathers have rather more, and the outer feathersrather less, black than the others; upper tail coverts, greyishbrown. Legs, very dark chesnut brown, as are the toes, thetwo outer of which are united at the base for a shortdistance; claws, 27 BROWN SNIPE. BED-BREASTED SNIPE. GREY SNIPE. BROWN LONGBEAK. Scohpax grisea, Pennant. Montagu. Scolopax Noveboracensis, Sabine. Macrorumphus griseus, . Eyton. Gould. Scolopax—A Woodcock, or Snipe. Grisea. This Snipe, whose triple name denotes its different appearancein summer, autumn, and winter—red, brown, and grey, ac-cording to the season of the year, belongs naturally to NorthAmerica. It is a very abundant species in the Fur Countries,and is found extensively from the borders of Lake Superior tothe Arctic Sea. In Europe it has been shot in Sweden, andis included also among the birds of Greenland. Colonel Montagu was the first to mention the occurrence ofthis bird in Britain. His specimen was obtained in Devonshire,in the month of October; a second example, according to Moore and Mr. Bellamy, was subsequently procuredin the same county. A third was killed near Carlisle, in theyear 1835; a fourth near Yarmou
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