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but the next only slightly shorter, the distal primaries rather strongly 

 bowed, otherwise normal; tertials broad and rounded at tip, falling 

 far short of tips of longest primaries. Tail nearly half as long as 

 wing, slightly rounded; rectrices 12. Tarsus shorter than middle 

 toe with claw (but longer than middle toe without claw), scutellate 

 anteriorly, covered laterally and posteriorly by small hexagonal 

 scales; lateral toes much shorter than middle toe, the outer slightly 

 longer than the inner; no web between middle and either of the 

 lateral toes; claws moderate or rather small, moderately curved. 



Coloration. — Above brown and gray barred and blotched with 

 blackish, the posterior half of pileum crossed by three bands of 

 blackish and thi'ee of whitish; under parts dull whitish, narrowly 

 barred with dusky brown. 



SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA Linnaus. 



WOODCOCK. 



Adults (sexes alike)."' — General color of upper parts rusty brown, 

 variegated by lighter transverse spots and dusky lines; scapulars and 

 median portion of back with irregular large black spots or blotches, 

 the former much mixed with light grayish posteriorly, the inter- 

 scapular region almost continuously light gra3ash laterally, forming 

 a well-defined V-shaped mark inclosing the black-spotted and rusty 

 central area; rump lighter rusty or cinnamon narrowly barred with 

 dusky, the upper tail-coverts similar but mostly tipped with light gray- 

 ish; rectrices black, serrated along edge of outer web with rusty and 

 broadly tipped with light gray; forehead and anterior portion of 

 crown brownish gray; rest of pileum black, crossed by four narrow 

 bands of light rusty or ochraceous, two through the black, the other 

 two bounding it anteriorly and posteriorly, respectively; a wide 

 loral stripe of blackish brown, extending from rictus to anterior 

 angle of eye; chin whitish; rest of under parts pale buffy grayish 

 (nearly white medially) irregularly barred with blackish brown; 

 primaries dusky, their outer webs with triangular spots of pale 

 cinnamon, arranged so as to form transverse bands, the outermost 

 quill broadly edged with white; bill flesh color in life, light brownish 

 or horn color in dried skins, dusky terminally; iris dark brown; 

 feet livid flesh color in life, light brownish in dried skins. 



Downy young. — General color warm buff, the upper parts with 

 large variously shaped areas of chestnut, these arranged as follows: 

 An isolated, somewhat cuneate, spot on middle of forehead: a 

 longitudinal stripe down median portion of rump; a longitudinal 

 patch covering occiput and nape, and sending out, on each side, 



« As to alleged differences in coloration of the sexes see Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. 

 Club, XXV, 1910, 34-38, according to whom there is not only no difference between 

 male and female nor is there any between adults and young. 



