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than tte 3rd. Length lOf inches; alar expanse 16j inches; 

 length of bill 21 inches. The shaft of the first primary is white, 

 that of all the others pale brown. 



^S'. Wilsonii. Common or Wilson's Snipe. 

 S. gallinago of Wilson ! 

 Gallinago Wilsonii* Baird ! 



v.s.p. Bill black at the tip, the rest brown ; legs and feet 

 grey; irides hazel; eggs 4, olivaceous spotted with brown. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown of head black, separated in two by a 

 medial liiie of white; line from the ridge of the bill over the eye 

 brownish white ; and another from the nostrils to the eye black- 

 ish brown ; the auriculars and cheeks greyish white, the former 

 margined with brown ; nuchal region ferruginous streaked with 

 blackish brown ; dorsal region and scapulars black, the latter 

 edged with cream colour on the outer vanes, and spotted with 

 chesnut on both ; scapulary feathers edged with white on the 

 outer vanes, spotted and barred with chesnut ; great and small 

 wing coverts dusky tipped with greyish white ; rump and tail 

 coverts brownish black barred with rufous brown, the bars caused 

 by spots on the vanes of the feathers ; tail rounded, jet black, 

 with a subterminal band of bright chesnut succeeded by a narrow 

 black border, and lastly tipped with rufous white; primaries 

 dusky, the outer vane of the first white, and the outer vane of the 

 second margined with white, all of them faintly tipped with 

 white. 



Ventral aspect. Chin white; throat and breast brownish 

 white spotted with brown ; belly and vent white ; flanks white 

 elegantly barred with brownish black ; tail coverts rufous barred 

 with brown. 



1st primary longest; 2nd subequal to it; long scapulary fea- 

 thers subequal to the 3rd primary. Length 11 inches; alar 

 expanse 16 J inches; length of the bill 2| inches. The two 

 lateral tail feathers of this bird are wholly white, with 7 equi- 

 distant blackish bars ; these bars are imperfectly continued to the 

 next ones, becoming less in number until we arrive at the centre 

 ones where they are obsolete ; the chesnut band commences at 

 the third, and deepens in tint as it approaches the central fea- 

 thers, 



