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Ascalopax »iajor Muhle, Beitr. Oru. Griechenl., 1844, 108. — Heuglix, Syst. Ueb. 

 1856, 64 (lower Egypt). — Lindermayer, Vog. Griechenl., 1860, 145. 



Scolopax paludosa Retzius, Faun. Suec, 1800, 173. 



Scolopax palustris Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 173 (n. Russia; Siberia). 



Scolopax leuciirus Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 501 (Hudson Bay; type 

 now in coll. Brit. Mus.). — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water birds, 

 1834, 617. 



Gallinago leucurus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, June, 1846, pi. 157. 



Telmatias nisoria Brehm, Vog. Deut-schl., 1831, 616. 



Gallinago montagui Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 52 (Suffolk, Eng- 

 land). 



Scolopax solitaria (not of Hodgson) Macgillivray, Man. Brit. Bii'ds, ii, 1842, 102. 



Telmatias brachyptcra Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 305. 



Telmatias uliginosa Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 305. 



GALLINAGO GALLINAGO (Linnaeus). 



SNIPE. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum with a narrow median (sometimes 

 more or less broken) stripe of light buff and two broad lateral stripes 

 of sooty black, the latter much contracted on forehead and some- 

 limes minutely flecked or streaked with pale brown or cinnamon; 

 a broad superciliary stripe of buff, extending from sides of forehead 

 to nape, the buffy color deepening posteriorly, where sometimes 

 almost cinnamon; a loral stripe of dusky or dusky brown, extending 

 from lateral base of maxilla to anterior angle of eye; a narrow, broken, 

 postocular dusky streak, and an oblique stripe of dusky brown 

 extending from middle of malar region upward and backward to end 

 of auricular region; hindneck and sides of neck brownish buffy (more 

 or less deep) broadly streaked with dusky, the foreneck similar but 

 Avith the buffy color paler and streaks massed into a more or less 

 distinct ^tripe on each side; chin, throat, and upper portion of malar 

 region immaculate dull buffy white or very pale buff; chest and upper 

 breast brownish buffy (nearly vinaceous-buff) irregularly streaked 

 .and otherwise marked with grayish brown, the lower breast paler, 

 with markings more transverse; rest of under parts white, the sides 

 and flanks regularly barred with dusky, the under tail-coverts 

 vinaceous-buff or cinnamon-buff irregularly barred or otherwise 

 marked with dusky; scapulars and interscapulars black, their outer 

 webs broadly and abruptly margined with pale buff to deep brownish 

 buff, the black portion more or less broken by irregular small spots 

 or bars of cinnamon or cinnamon-brown, these assuming a more or 

 less U-shaped form on posterior scapulars; anterior lesser wing- 

 coverts nearly uniform dusky brownish gray, the posterior ones^ 

 together with middle coverts broadl}^ but not abruptly tipped with 

 pale brownish buffy; greater coverts, primary coverts, and sec- 

 ondaries dusky, tipped with white; primaries dusky, the outermost 

 with outer web mostlj' white; rump deep brownish gray, the feathers 



