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etc. iii. p. 338 (1882) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1882, p. 11 (Malay Pen- 

 insula) ; Oates, Handb. B. Brit. Burm. ii. p. 383 (1883) ; Tacz. 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, x. p. 475 (1885) ; Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, 

 p. 417 (Silam) ; Sioinh. fy Barnes, Ibis, 1885, p. 133 (Mhow 

 distr.) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 132 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 611 

 (Corea), 1888, p. 468 ; Everett, Journ. Straits Branch As. Soc. 

 1889, p. 206 ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, pp. 330, 504 (Lower Yangtse) ; 

 Sharpe, Sci. Res. 2nd York. Miss., Ares, p. 144 (1891 : E. of 

 Tanksi, Sept. ; Leh, Aug.) ; Be La Touche, Ibis, 1892, p. 498 

 (Foochow and Swatow) ; Tacz. Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Peter sb. 

 (7) xxxix. p. 959 (1893): Styan, Ibis, 1893, p. 436 (Hainan); 

 Munn, Ibis, 1894, p. 72 (Calcutta distr.). 



Scolopax pectinicauda, Peak, U.S. Expl. E.rped. p. 227 (1848: 

 Singapore). 



Gallinago indica {nee Hodgs.), Licht. Nomencl. At: Berol. p. 93 

 (1854: East India). 



Spilura horsfieldi, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 579 (1856) ; Tacz. Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, iv. p. 139 (1879). 



Gallinago stenura, Gray, Cat. Mamm. 8>c. Nepal ty Thibet, p. 75 

 (1863). 



Gallinago sthenura, Le Messurier, Sir. F. iii. p. 380 (1875 : Sind) ; 

 Hume § Davison, Str. F. vi. p. 459 (1878 : Tenasserirn) ; Hume, 

 op. cit. vii. p. 39 (1878 : Southern Travancore) ; Davidson fy 

 Wenden, t. c. p. 88 (Deccan) ; Ball, t. c. p. 228 (Maunbhum, 

 Godavery Valley) ; C'ripps, t. c. p. 301 (Faridpur) ; Hume, Str. F. 

 viii. p. 69 (Malay Peninsula), p. 112 (1879); Bingham, t. c. 

 p. 196 (Tenasserirn) ; Scully, t. c. p. 354 (Nepal Valley) ; Butler, 

 Cat. B. Sind etc. p. 61 (1879: winter); id. Cat. B~. S. Bomb. 

 Pres. p. 75 (1880) ; Vidal, Str. F. ix. p. 83 (1880: S. Konkan) ; 

 Bingham, t. c. p. 196 (Thoungyeen Valley) ; Reid, op. cit. x. p. 68 

 (1881 : Lucknow) ; Davidson, t. c. p. 320 (W. Khandeish) ; 

 Davison, t. c. p. 413 (Wynaad) : Murray, J'ertebr. Faun. Sind, 

 p. 239 (1884) ; Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 319 (1888: Manipur). 



Gallinago heterocerca (tree Cab.), Prjev. in Roivley's Orn. Misc. iii. 

 p. 91 (1878 : Ussuri, breeding). 



Spilura stenura, Heine fyReichen. Nomencl. Mas. Hein. p. 331 (1890 : 

 Java). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above blackish, 

 striped and mottled with sandy isabelline, the streaks on the sides 

 of the back and scapulars being very broad ; the upper surface also 

 interspersed with rufous spots, but the general colour of the light 

 markings sandy buff, especially on the hind-neck ; wing-coverts 

 dark brown, the marginal series almost uniform, the rest barred 

 with rufous or sandy buff, with paler tips, the rufous and black 

 bars very distinct on the greater coverts, where they are regularly 

 indicated ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, with narrow 

 white tips ; quills blackish, the first primary browner on the outer 

 web, which is narrowly fringed with white ; the secondaries (the 

 outermost of which do not exceed the primary-coverts in length) 

 narrowly fringed with white at the tip, the inner ones barred with 

 rufous and blackish, mostly on the outer web, the innermost long 

 secondaries barred across, especially near the ends of the feathers ; 

 tail-feathers blackish brown, the ten central ones with a broad band 



