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Poland) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1877, p. 351 (Transvaal, March, April) ; 

 id, Ibis, 1878, p. 411 (Transvaal, Jan.) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879 r 

 p. 157 (Yen-e-sei, June & Aug.) ; Finsch, Yerhandl. z.-b. Ges. 

 Wien, xxix. p. 254 (1879 : Barnaul, June ; Tundra of R. Podarata, 

 Aug.) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 268 (Potchefstroom) ; Gigl. Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 210 (Italy) ; Socage, Orn. Angola, p. 474 (1881) ; Tristr. Ibis, 

 1882, p. 408 (Beyrout) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 606 (1882) ; 

 B. O. U. List Brit. B. p. 165 (1883); Gigl. Iconogr. Avif. Ital. 

 no. 305 (1883) ; Saunders, ed. YarreWs Brit. B. iii. p. 336 (1883) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1884, p. 389 (Pyrenees) ; Sharpe, ed. Laym-d's B. S. Afr. 

 p. 678 (1884) ; Tristr. Faun, fy Flor. Palest, p. 132 (1884: Tyre, 

 winter) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 42 (Corsica) ; Ayres, t. c. 

 p. 384 (Transvaal, Nov., Dec, March) ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, 

 p. 116 (Zanzibar; Usegua); Gigl. Avif. Ital. p. 403 (1886); 

 Salvad. Elenco Ucc. Ital. p. 232 (1886) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1886, p. 492 

 (Fao); Fleske, Uebers. Saug. u. Vog. Kola-Halh. p. 337 (1886) ; 

 Tait, His, 1887, p. 389 (Portugal) ; Harvie-Brown fy Buckley, 

 Vertebr. Faun. Caithn. etc. p. 217 (1887 : Freswick) ; iid. Vertebr. 

 Faun. Outer Hebr. p. 131 (1888) ; Tacz. Ornis, iv. p. 498 (1888 : 

 Poland, breeding) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 555 (1889) ; Gigl. 

 Avif. Ital, 1st Besoc. p. 614 (1889), 2nd Resoc. p. 652 (1890), 

 3rd Besoc. p. 512 (1891) ; Heine $• Reichen. Nomenci. Mus. Hein. 

 p. 331 (1890) ; W. Evans, Ibis, 1891, p. 80 (incubation) ; Dresser, 

 t. c. p. 369 (Erzeroom) : Buckley fy Harvie-Brown, Vertebr. Faun. 

 Orkney Isl, p. 212(1891); Madardsz, Frlaut. Ausst. Unqar. Voqelf. 

 p. Ill (1891) ; Frivaldsky, Av. Hung. p. 148 (1891) ; Harvie- 

 Brown (§■ Buckley, Vertebr. Faun. Argyll fy Inner Hebr. p. 175 

 (1892) ; Macphers. Vertebr. Faun. Lake/, p. 376 (1892) ; Hartert, 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 514 (E. Prussia, breeding) ; Fatio $ Studer, Cat. 

 distr. Ois. Suisse, p. 46 (1892) ; Reichen, JB. Anst. Hamb. x. p. 7 

 (1883 : Quilimane, Feb., March) ; Reiser, Ornis Balcanica, p. 163 

 (1894) ; Chapm. Ibis, 1894, p. 343 (W. Jutland) ; Reichen. Vog. 

 Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 43 (1894: Useguha; Kakoma ; Igonda) ; 

 Irby, Orn. Straits Gibr. 2nd ed. p. 277 (1895) ; Whitaker, Ibis, 

 1895, p. 106 (Tunis). 



Scolopax leucurus, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 501 (1831 : 

 Hudson's Bay). 



Telmatias major, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 615 (1831) ; Reichenb. 

 Grail, tab. lxviii. fig. 555 (1850) ; Collett, Norges Fugle, p. 50 

 (1868) ; Droste, Vogelw. Borkum, p. 239 (1869) ; Saunders, Ibis, 

 1871, p. 389 (Southern Spain) ; Alston Sf Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 

 1873, p. 70 (Archangel) ; Radde, Orn. Cauc. pp. 41, 387 (1884 : 

 7000 ft., breeding). 



Telmatias nisoria, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 616 (1831). 



Gallinago montagui, Bp. Comp. List B. Fur. fy N. Amer. p. 52 

 (1838: Suffolk). 



Ascalopax major, Keys, fy Bias. Wirb. Fur. pp. lxxviii, 216 (1840) ; 

 Miihle, Beitr. Orn. Griechenl, p. 108 (1844) ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. 

 p. 64 (1856 : Lower Egypt) ; Linderm. Vog. Griechenl. p. 145 

 (1860) ; Borggr. Vogelf. Norddeutschl. p. 119 (1869). 



Scolopax solitaria (?iec Hodgs.), Macgill. Man. Brit. B. ii. s j>. 102 

 (1842). 



Telmatias brachyptera, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 305 (1855). 



Telmatias uliginosa, Brehm, torn. cit. p. 305. 



Adult male. General colour above black, mottled with sandy buff, 

 with which the feathers are fringed and barred in an irregular and 



