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Capella steniira, de Sohauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1929, p. 586 

 (Chiang Mai).— Deignan, Jouru. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1931, p. 172 

 (Chiang Mai) ; 1936, p. 83 (Chiang Mai). 



The pintail is no doubt present in season at any suitable place in 

 our districts. In Stockholm are two undated specimens collected by 

 Eisenhofer at Khun Tan. I took examples at Ban Mae Klang, Feb- 

 ruary 11 and 13, 193*7, and at Ban Huai Pa Khan (on the Nan river) , 

 April 8, 1937. One was shot at 4,300 feet on Doi Ang Ka, April 21, 

 1931, at the same bog in which the wood snipe had been found a week 

 earlier. At Chiang Mai I recorded it as early as August 22 (1931) 

 and as late as April 25 (1935) ; it was very common during the months 

 of migration but I never took it there in midwinter, which leads me 

 to suspect that it occurs in our provinces only as a bird of passage. 



The pintail occurs at the same wet areas as the fantail, but I have 

 also discovered it occasionally in quite dry places at some distance from 

 water, hiding in grass or under a bush. Its alarm note and manner of 

 flight are much like those of the fantail. Stomachs I examined 

 contained only vegetable matter. 



A female had the irides brown ; the apical half of the bill brownish 

 black, the basal half of the maxilla light brown, of the mandible horny 

 olive; the feet and toes dull olive-green, the joints slaty gray; the 

 claws black. 



The pintail chiefly differs from the fantail in having the eight outer 

 tail feathers on each side very narrow and stiff, the outermost so much 

 so as to be pinlike. 



CAPELLA NEMORICOLA (Hodgson) 



Wood Snipe 



Gall[inago] nemoricola Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1836, p. 8 (Nepal). 

 Capella nemoricola, Rogers and Deignan, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 1934, p. 91 

 (Doi Ang Ka). 



The rare wood snipe is known from Thailand by a single specimen, a 

 male taken by me on Doi Ang Ka, 4,300 feet, April 13, 1931. 



This bird was shot at a boggy area, overgrown with an alderlike 

 shrub, near the upper end of the valley beneath Pha Mon. In Septem- 

 ber 1930 I flushed a large snipe, probably of this species, in the rice- 

 fields at the opposite end of the same valley. 



My specimen had the irides dark brown; the maxilla light brown 

 with a fleshy tinge, the tip blackish brown, the narial region and ex- 

 treme base dark gray; the mandible with the apical half blackish 

 brown, the basal half fleshy white; the feet and toes chalky fleshy (al- 

 most white) ; the soles dead white; the claws horn-brown. 



The wood snipe is decidedly larger than our other snipes. In col- 

 oration it resembles gallinago and stenura, but whereas these two 



