. British birds with their nests and eggs . eve that nospecimens are available for examination.* Description, of the adult: bill brown (af inches long), darker at the tip; irisumber; head and neck light brown, darker on the crown and hind neck; fourdark brown lines from the bill, one through, and one over each eye; back prettilymottled with chestnut, clay-brown, and black; long buff outer borders to thescapulars and tertiaries; wings dark grey-brown, median coverts mottled with thetwo browns, like the back; greater coverts and secondaries white-tipped; firstprimary with the outer web, except a
. British birds with their nests and eggs . eve that nospecimens are available for examination.* Description, of the adult: bill brown (af inches long), darker at the tip; irisumber; head and neck light brown, darker on the crown and hind neck; fourdark brown lines from the bill, one through, and one over each eye; back prettilymottled with chestnut, clay-brown, and black; long buff outer borders to thescapulars and tertiaries; wings dark grey-brown, median coverts mottled with thetwo browns, like the back; greater coverts and secondaries white-tipped; firstprimary with the outer web, except at the tip, creamy-white; tail (fourteen feathers)mostly black, this colour decreasing in area outwards, till only black bases are lefton the outer feathers; a broad subterminal chestnut bar to the central feathers,followed by a narrow dark brown one and a reddish white tip; the outer feathers * Hagerup states that the commou Suipe is somewhat uncommon; may possibly breed [in Greenland],(Catalogue of the Birds of Greenland, p. 54).— w Z z o ou The Common Snipe. much more barred, the chestnut becoming a speckled grey-brown; chest and sidesof the body light brown, spotted with dark brown; belly white; under tail-covertsrusty; axillaries white, narrowly barred with black; feet and legs about loj inches; wing, closed, a shade under five. Young birds are dingier in hue, and the chestnut on the back is duller, butgreater in extent; the axillaries are sometimes plain unbarred smoky grey, some-times partially of this colour; not seldom those of one side, or part of thoseunder one wing, are like this, the other side being barred as in the adult. The bird described as Sabines Snipe is only a dusky, or melanic form of theyoung of this bird. Instead of the normal colours, it is dull brown all over, barredwith paler yellow-brown. Cream-coloured and white Snipes occur sometimes. Nestling (Laxadalr, Iceland, 15, 7, 85): a lovely little creature, of the mostdelica
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