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41 (47). Arquatella couesi EiDGW. 112. 



A commou resideut. It breeds iu great numbers, most of them leav- 

 ing in autumn, but a great many remain all winter. 



Usually this species is confounded with A. maritiina, of which it is the 

 Pacific representative. It seems, however, as if Professor Bogdanow, 

 on the other hand, has confounded it with the Japanese Tringa eras- 

 sirostris Temm. & Schleg., for he does not mention A. maritima, or any 

 representative of it, from the Pacific possessions of Eussia, while he 

 attributes T. crassirostris to Kamtschatka and Bering Island, where 

 it was found neither by Dybowski nor by myself {cf. Bogdanow, Cousp. 

 A v. Imp. Koss., I, pp. 88-90). 



Apart from the difference in coloration and the discrepancy in size, 

 which is very great, T. crassirostris being more than one-third larger 

 than A. couesi, as will be seen from the subjoined table, they are very 

 easily distinguished by the quite differently proportioned feet, the 

 former having the tarsus much longer than the middle toe with claw, 

 while in A. couesi this toe with claw is longer than the tarsus. In fact, 

 the two species belong to different genera, and should always be dis- 

 tinguished by their structural differences: 



Comparatire measurements. 

 a. TEIXGA CRASSIKOSTEIS. 



U.S. 

 Nat. 

 Mus. 

 Ko. 



Collector. 



Sex 

 ami 



96424 Swinh. 



97975 



102143 



Vatl. 

 juu. 

 jun. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Shanghai, China. . . 

 Tokohania, Japau . 

 "Japan" 



Apr. -,1873 



"Wins 



ISJ 

 177 

 176 



Tail- 

 feath- 

 ers. 



Exp. 

 culmeu, 



Tar- 

 sus. 



Middle 



toe 



■with 



claw. 



vol. xliii, however, on page 579, Bouaparce under Gallinaijo scohpacinu meutions a 

 subspecies " n.Japonica." This is a nomen nudum witliont dispute, though evidently 

 referable to Jupauese si)ecimens ofthe commou suipe. But on the samepage he names 

 another bird Spilura solitaria a.japonica (X. 13., not Gallinagojaponica)': And this name 

 is not a nomen nudum, for in separating it from " *S. solitaria Hodgson," he expressly 

 refers it to " <Sc. solitaria, Scbleg.," which is just the bird Mr. Seebohm proposes to call 

 "japonica Swixhoe " Bonaparte's name Spilura solitaria japonica cannot " belong to 

 any of the half-dozen snipes of Japau," but only to the one which Schlegel had called 

 Scolopax solitaria I 



The synonymy of the present form should therefore stand as follows : 

 (46). Gallinafjo solitaria japonica (Bp.). 

 1849. — Scolopax (Gallinago) solitaria Temm & Sculeg., Fauna Jap. Aves (p. 11'2, pi. 



Ixviii) {nee Hodgson). 

 1S56. — Spilura solitaria a. japonica BoxAP., Compt. Rend., XLIII, p. 579. 

 1873. — Gallinago japonica Swixhoe, Ibis, 1873, p. 364. 



1876. — Gallinago hijemalis Taczaxuwski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 256 {nee 

 EVERSM.).— If/., ibid., 1883, p. 34U. 



I have received from Schliiter a skin of this form, which is said to have been col- 

 lected in Kamtschatka May 11, 1884 (U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 108954), but this is appa- 

 rently a mistake, as it most probably came from Ussuri. It differs in no way from 

 Japanese and Chinese specimens with which I have compared it. 

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