. A history of British birds . RED-BREASTED SNIPE. SCOLOPACID^.. Maceorhamphus griseus (Gmelin*).THE EED-BREASTED griseus. Macrorhamphus, Leach t. —Beak long, straight, rounded, rather slender inthe middle, the tip dilated, slightly incurved and rugose. Nostrils lateral, with four toes, the outer toes connected at their base by a membrane ;hinder toe touching the ground only at the tip ; lower part of the tibia long and pointed. Tail-feathers twelve in number. The Red-breasted or Brown Snipe is an Americanspecies which was first made known
. A history of British birds . RED-BREASTED SNIPE. SCOLOPACID^.. Maceorhamphus griseus (Gmelin*).THE EED-BREASTED griseus. Macrorhamphus, Leach t. —Beak long, straight, rounded, rather slender inthe middle, the tip dilated, slightly incurved and rugose. Nostrils lateral, with four toes, the outer toes connected at their base by a membrane ;hinder toe touching the ground only at the tip ; lower part of the tibia long and pointed. Tail-feathers twelve in number. The Red-breasted or Brown Snipe is an Americanspecies which was first made known as a straggler to Britainby Colonel Montagu, who described it in his OrnithologicalDictionary, and gave a figure of it in its winter plumage inhis Supplement. This example, which was killed in Devon-shire in the month of October, is preserved in the BritishMuseum. According to Dr. Edward Moore (Mag. Nat. , p. 321), a second Devonshire example is in the collec-tion of Mr. Drew. A young bird was shot near Carlisle on * Scolopax grisea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 6
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