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Show 386 AVES. coloure d b anc ls ' by its brown win.g s watered with grey, by a wh1· t1· s h b e 11 y, the flanks watered w1th brown, &c. f It· frequents mars l1 es, e d g es Of rivulets ' &c. and ascen.d s out o si.g ht, pour. · · · cing note from a great distance, which sounds lmikge ot huet bltles a;. ... mtegr o fa goat• It is found in nearly the same state in all parts of the globe. . . S col. maJ·o r, G m.,• La double Becassme; Fnsch, 228; Nau.m . 2, f. 2• (The Great Snipe.) Is distinguished f;om the precedtng by being a third larger, and by the grey or fawn coloured un· dulat1· 0ns a b ove bei 'n g smaller ' and the brown ones beneath larger and more numerous. . Seal. gallinula, Gm.; La Sourde; Enl. 884; Fnsch, 231; f 4 (The Jack Snipe.) Nearly one half smaller than Naum. 4, . . h h d th the Seal. gallinago; has but one black band on t e e~ ; e ground of the mantle reflects a bronze-green; a gre! demi·coll~r on the neck; the flanks spotted like the breast ~Vlth brown; tt remains nearly the whole year in the marshes of Europe. We should distinguish from all others, the .. . Sc. grisea, Gm.; Wils. VII, lviii, 1; Sc. Paykullu, Nils. Or~. S II I 2 and in summer plumage, Seal. Noveboracenm, uec. ' p . ' . h t I Lath. (The Red-breasted Snipe.) Which differs ~~ t :ex ern~ toes being semi-pal mated. It is more ash-coloured m wmter, a.n more reddish in summer, the rump always white, spotted wtth black. It is also seen in Europe.( 1) RHYNOH.JEA, Cuv.(2) Birds of India and Africa, whose nearly equal mandibles a~e slightly arcuated at the end, and in which the nasal fossre extend tote tip of the upper one, wh1. ch has no thi. r d groove. Their feet are not palmated. To the port o f Snipes t I1 ey a dd mo re lively co. 1oh u drs , and are parti• cularly remarkable 1l' 0r t h e oce1 1 a ted spots whiC e· corate the quills of both wings and tail. . si· These birds are found of var1· ous co1 o urs, a nd Gmelm, rc on 8 1 dering them as van·e h·e s, um· tes th em under the na·tomP e 0 coes· capensis. M. Temmm. ck also cons1· d ers t h em as chneren t ag of one bird.(3) ( 1) It appears that Vicillot restricts the name of Scolopa:c to t h't s subdivis..i.o. nL,e athcaht is, if, as I think, his pl. 241 represents tht.s b.t rd ; 1. t 1. s no t , 1l owever' exact. Dl makes his genus MACRORAMPUUS of it. (2) Vieillot has adopted this name and genus, Gal. pl. 240. . 8 )' En!. (3) Scol. capensis, J', Gm. Enl. 922, should be the adult; Scol. ~P: ~n,inter· 881, or Rynchma variegata, Vieill., Galer. 240, the young, and E~ · . Gm.). Al· mediate age. The Chevalier vert, Briss. and Buff. (Rallus bengha ens~, m the va· bin. III, 9•0 , is also of this genus, and does not even appear to d1'$ e f ii'O GRALLATORIJE. 387 LzMosA, Dechst.( 1) The Godwits have a straight beak, longer than the Snipes, and sometimes even slightly arcuated near the top. The nasal groove extends close to the tip, which is blunt and somewhat depressed; no third groove or punctation on its surface. The external toes are palmated at hase. Their form is more slender, and their legs longer than those of Snipes; they frequent salt marshes and the sea-shore. Scot. leucopluea, Lath., and lapon'ica, Gm.; Bm·ge aboyeuse; the young, Brit. Zool. pl. xiii; Briss. V, pl. xxiv, f. 2; the adult in summer plumage, Enl. 900.(2) (The Common Godwit.) In winter, a deep brown-grey, the feathers edged with white; the breast, a brown-grey; whitish above; rump, white striped with brown, &c. In summer it is red, with a brown back. The tail is always striped with white and black. Seal. regoceplzala and belgica, Gm.; Limosa melanura, Leisler; in winter plumage, Enl. 874; in that of summer, lb. 916. (The Black-tailed Godwit.) In winter a cinereous grey, browner on the back; white belly; in summer, head, neck, and breast, reel; the mantle, brown spotted with red; beneath, s-triped with bro"rn, red and white bands; tail always black, edged with white at the tip. These two birds are double the size of the Woodcock, and their changes of plumage have occasioned various multiplications of the species. The last, during the summer, covers the plains of New Holland. Its cry is very shrill and resembles that of a Goat.(3) CALIDRis, Cuv.-TRINGA, Temm.(4) The bill of the Sandpipers is depressed at the end, and the nasal riety represented, Enl. 922. N. B. This last plate is the only one that gives a correct representation of the beak peculiar to this little subgenus. Add, a very distinct species from llrazi1, Rltyncluea Mlarea, Val., llullet. des Sc. de Ferussac, Co2. (1) Vieillot has changed this name into LnncuLA, Gal. 243. . . (2) Gmelin has made the young of this bird a variety of the followmg spectes, and quotes the fig. of Bt·isson, by the name of Scol. glottis, which is a. Ru~. The adult is his Scol. laponica. The Limosa Meyeri, Leis!. and Temm., 1s tlus species in its winter livery, and Jam. rufa, the same in its summer plumage ... (3) Add Scol. jedoa, L.; Wils. VII, pl. I vi, 4, or the Limicula marmorata, V1etll. Galer. 243. We might distinguish the Scol. terek or Sc. cinerea, Gm.; Guldenst., Nov. Act. Petrop., XIX, pl. xix, whose beak is curved upwards, and whose feet aresemi.palmated. It leads to the Recurvirostres. (4) Calidris, " an ash coloured and spotted bird, frequenting rivers and woods," Aristotle. · Brisson has applied itt~ the Great Sandpiper. |