Mr. N. A. Vigors on a /leziy -S'/jecieso/'Scolopax, ^c, 557 



I / 'i'J I :j 



Ordo. Grallatores. 111. 



Fam. ScoLOPACiD^, mihi. 



Genus. SCOLOPAX Auct. 



ScoLOPAx Sabini. 



S. castaneo atroque varia, subtus pallidior, pileo humeris ptero- 

 matibus remigibusque atris, rostro pedibusqixe.fusco-atris. 



Tab. XXI. 



Rostrum fusco-atrum, mandibuld superiore ad basin subcastane^. 

 Gula, gejicB, pectusque fusco-atrse, castaneo-maculatae. Ab- 

 domen fusco-atrum castaneo-fasciatum. Tectrices inferiores, 

 remigesque subtus fuscae. Dorsum scaptdaresque intens^ 

 atrae castaneo-fasciatse. Rectrices duodecim, ad basin atree, 

 ad apicem ferrugineae atro-fasciatae. 



Longitudo corporis, rostro incluso, 9tV > rostri 3-jV ; alee a carpo 

 ad remigem secundam 5yV '> tarsi 1J-. 



In Mus. nost. 



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.gallimda, which 



4 c 2 also 



