362 Dr, A. Hall on the Mammals and Birds 



flank feathers rufous white barred with brown ; lateral tail coverts 

 rufous white barred with brown on the outer vanes of the lateral 

 ones; wing linings salmon colour barred with blackish brown; 

 belly and vent rufous white. 



1st primary longest ; long axillary feathers longer than the 

 5th but shorter than the 4th ; all the primaries except the 1st 

 and 2ud tipped with white. Length 14 inches; alar expanse 25 

 inches ; length of the bill 2 J inches. In the female the medial 

 line on the crown is obsolete. 



Suh genus Scolopax. 



Sub gen. char. Bill slender, long, compressed, soft, straight, 

 with a turned tip, the tip of the upper mandible projecting over 

 the lower and tuberculated ; both mandibles furrowed for half 

 their length ; nostrils lateral, basal, linear, in the furrow of the 

 mandible, and covered by a membrane ; feet not palmated ; the 

 orbits placed far back on the head. In some species the exter- 

 nal and middle toes are connected to the first joint. 



S. grisea. Red-breasted Snipe. 



S. novehoracensis of Latham and Gmelin ! ! 



Macroramphus griseus of Leach ! 



Macrorhamphus griseus. Baird 1 

 vs.p. Bill black towards the tip, the remainder dull olive; 

 legs and feet bluish grey ; irides hazel ; eggs unknown. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown blackish brown tipped with brownish 

 chosnut ; sides of the head commencing at the nostrils greyish 

 white ; a streak from the angle of the mouth to the eye, and 

 another more faint beyond it greyish brown ; cheeks greyish 

 white ; nuchal region grey ; interscapulary region, scapulars, long 

 axillary feathers blackish brown, tipped and striped on the mar- 

 gins with chesnut ; small wing coverts and great wing coverts, 

 dusky, the former tipped with grey, the latter with pale chesnut ; 

 rump, tail coverts and tail, white barred with blackish brown, the 

 latter also tipped with pale chesnut ; primaries brownish black. 



Ventral aspect. Chin and throat greyish while; breast rufous 

 with imperfect and irregular streaks of brown ; flanks rufous white 

 with faint wavy linesof brown; internal linings white with black- 

 ish brown bars ; tail coverts rufous white with bars ; belly and 

 vent white tinted with rufous. 



1st primary longest; 2nd considerably longer than the 3rd; 

 long scapulary feathers longer than the 4th primary but shorter 



