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Downy young. — "Covered with down of an ashy-fulvous, inchning 

 to rufous here and there on the crown and center of the hack, as 

 well as on the wings; a very broad eyebrow of isabelhnc white, like 

 the sides of the face; a line of black in the center of the forehead, 

 extending on to the crown; lores crossed by a line of black, with 

 several lines of black on the side of the face; the sides of the back 

 ])lack, and a black patch on each side of the flanks; under surface 

 of body orange-buff, with a black patch on the lower throat; the 

 center of the breast and abdomen isabelline whitish." 



Adult male.— Wmg, 136-145 (140.2); tail, 49.5-57.5 (54.3); ex- 

 posed culmen, Cl-68 (65.2); tarsus, 35.5-38.5 (36.7); middle toe, 

 34-37 (34.9). « 



Adult female.— Wmg, 133.5-145.5 (138.7); tail, 54.5-57 (55.8); 

 exposed culmen, 62-68 (64.5); tarsus, 37.5-40 (38.5); middle toe, 

 35-39 (36.5).^ 



Europe and western Asia; breeding from Prussia to Yenesei River, 

 Siberia, and northward to beyond latitude 71° N.; wintering in 

 British Islands, southern Europe, and throughout Africa, and east- 

 ward to Persia; accidental in northeastern North America ("Hud- 

 son Bay," 1 specimen). 



[Scolofax] media Latham, Gen. Synopsis Birds, Suppl., i, 1787, 292 (Lancashire, 

 England), c 



Scolopax media Meyer and Wolf, Taschenb., ii, 1810, 362. — Vieillot, Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 358 (Provence; Italy).— Roux, Orn. Prov., 

 1830, pi. 300.— Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., viii, 1836, pi. 208. 



Gallinago viedia Gerini,c Orn. Meth. Dig., iv, 1773, 59, pi. 1546. — Irby, Orn. 

 Straits Gibraltar, 1875, 175.— Finsch, Ibis, 1877, 58, 61 (River Ob, Siberia).— 

 Dubois, Faun. III. Vertebr. Belg., Ois., ii, 1894, 223, pi. 209.— American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xxv, 1908, 366; Check List, 

 3rd ed., 1910, 111. 



[Scolopax] major Gmelin, Syst. Xat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 661 (founded on Scolopax 

 viedia Frisch, etc.). — Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 714 (Siberia; England). 



c Sharpe (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 626) cites as the first reference to this 

 name: "Frisch, Vorst. Vog. Deutschl., pi. 228 (1763: teste Dresser)." -Frisch and 

 Gerini are both non-binomial authors. 



