Not figured.
"Dorsal plumage and wings mostly brownish-black; the top of the head,
scapulars, interscapulars, intermediate coverts, posterior greater
ones, and tertiaries, reflecting green and mottled, or barred with
yellowish-brown; this colour also forming stripes from the forehead to
the nape, over the eyes to the sides of the neck, and more broadly on
the exterior edges of the scapulars and interscapulars; middle dorsal
plumage and first quill fringed with white, and most of the
wing-coverts and lesser quills tipped with the same. Shafts of the
primaries deep brown, an inch of the first near its point whitish.
Rump and tail-coverts rich greenish-black, with reddish-orange or
ferruginous ends, crossed by a blackish subterminal line, and tipped
with white; the three exterior pairs barred externally with
clove-brown and brownish-white, the white tips broader; the two
intermediate pairs coloured nearly like the middle ones, but partly
barred and tipped with white. Under plumage, a dark brown stripe on
the lores, another under the ear; sides of the head, front of the
neck, and breast pale wood-brown, with central spots of dark umber;
the flanks, insides of the wings, and under tail-coverts barred with
black and white, which on the latter is tinged with brown; belly
white; bill blackish towards its tip, dark wood-brown at the base.
Length 11-1/2, wing 5-3/8.
"Fur Countries to Lat. 55°. Rocky Mountains."
Scolopax Drummondii, Drummond's Snipe, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 400.
Drummond's Snipe, Scolopax Drummondii, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. v.
p. 319.