Mr. N. A. Vicons on a new Species of Scolopax, $c. 557 
Ordo. GnaLLATOnzs. Ill. 
Fam. Scoropracrpz, mihi. 
Genus. SCOLOPAX Auct. 
SCOLOPAX SABINI. 
S. castaneo atroque varia, subtus pallidior, pileo humeris ptero- 
matibus remigibusque atris, rostro pedibusque fusco-atris. 
Tas. XXI. 
Rostrum fusco-atrum, mandibulá superiore ad basin subcastanea. 
Gula, gene, pectusque fusco-atræ, castaneo-maculate. Ab- 
domen fusco-atrum castaneo-fasciatum. Tectrices inferiores, 
remigesque subtus fuscæ. Dorsum scapularesque intensè 
atre castaneo-fasciatæ. Rectrices duodecim, ad basin atre, 
ad apicem ferrugineæ atro-fasciatæ. 
Longitudo corporis, rostro incluso, 9.3. ; rostri 2-2, ; ale a carpo 
ad remigem secundam 545; tarsi 11. 
In Mus. nost. d 
This species is at once distinguished from every other Euro- 
pean species of Scolopax, by the total absence of white from its 
plumage, or any of those lighter tints of ferruginous-yellow, 
which extend more or less in stripes along the head and back of 
them all. In this respect it exhibits a strong resemblance to the 
S. saturata of Dr. Horsfield, from which however it sufficiently 
differs in its general proportions : and I find no description of 
any other extra European species of true Scolopax which at all 
approaches it in this character of its plumage. In the number 
of the tail-feathers again, which amount to twelve, it differs 
from S. major, which has sixteen, and S. gallinago, which has 
fourteen : it agrees however in this point with S. gallinula, which 
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