

70. GALLINAGO. 637 



Handb. B. Brit. Bitrm. ii. p. 381 (1883); Saunders, ed. YarreWs 

 Brit. B. iii. p. 342 (1**3); 7/mw, ,S'/V. i-'. x. p. 41.". (1**3; 

 Mysore) ; D-istr. Faun. # 2*7or. Palest, p. 132 (1884); Chapman, 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 98 (Spain); Suunders, t. c. p. 389 (Pyrenees); 

 Bain/, Bretoer, Sf Bidgw. Water-Birds N, Amer. i. p. 192 (1884); 

 Saivad. Ann. Mus. Oenov. (2) i. p. 223 (1884: Shoa) ; Whitehead, 

 Ibis, 1885, p. 42 (Corsica) ; Beid, t. c. p. 258 (Marocco) ; Pleske, 

 Uebers. Sii„y. u. Tog. Kola-Halb. p. 337 (1886) ; Giql. Avif. Ital. 

 p. 404 (1880) ; Saivad. Elenco Ucc. Ital. p. 232 (1886) ; Harvie- 

 Broun fy Buckley, Vertebr. Faun. Caithn. etc. p. 217 (1887) ; 

 Backhouse, Ibis, 1887, p. 72 (East Pyrenees) ; Tait, t. c. p. 389 

 (Portugal) ; Terry, Sir. F. x. p. 480 (1887 : Palani Hills) ; Harvie- 

 Brown $ Buckley, Vertebr. Faun. Outer Hebr. p. 131 (1888); 

 Hume, Str. F. xi. p. 320 (1888 : Manipur) ; Beichen. Syst. Verz. Vbg. 

 Deutsehl. p. 46 (1889) ; Saunders, Man. Brit. B. p. 557 (1889) ; 

 St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 176 (Kandahar): Gigl. Avif. Ital., 1st 

 Resoc. p. 616 (1889), 2nd Besoc. p. 652 (1890), 3rd Besoc. p. 512 

 (1891) ; Heine \ Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. p. 331 (1890) ; 

 Buckley §■ Ilarvie-Broicn, Vertebr. Faun. Orkney Isl. p. 212 

 (1891)"; Dresser, Ibis, 1891, p. 369 (Erzeroum) ; Sfyan, t. c. 

 pp. 330, 505 (Lower Yangtse) ; Harvie-BrownSf Buckley, Vertebr. 

 Faun. Argyll §■ Inner Hebr. p. 175 (1892) ; Macphersnn, Vertebr. 

 Faun.Lakel. p. 376 (1892); Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 171 (Aden); 

 Meade-Waldo, t. c. p. 204 (Canary Is.) ; Munn, Ibis, 1894, p. 72 

 (Calcutta) ; Whitaker, t. c. p. lOO (Tunis) ; Pearson # Bidwell, 

 t. c. p. 234 (N. Norway) ; Dubois, Faun. III. Vert. Bely., Ois. ii. 

 p. 226, pi. 211 (1894) : Irby, Orn. Straits Gibr. 2nd ed. p. 278 

 (1895) ; Poxjnt. Eggs Brit. B. part ii. (1895). 



Gallinago scolopacina, yar. breknri, Frivaldsky, Av. Huny. p. 149 

 (1891). 



Gallinago nilsoni (lapsu), Seebohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 33 (Hakodadi). 



Gallinago ccelestis, yar. sabinei, Barrett-Hamilton, Irish Nat iy. 

 p. 12 (1895). 



Adult male. General colour aboye black, with a broad line of 

 sandy buft' along each side of the back, formed by the broad edges 

 of the scapulars, which are blotcbed with black ; the lower back 

 dusky blackish; rump and upper tail-coyerts tawny rufous, barred 

 across with dusky blackish, the long tail-coyerts white at the ends ; 

 wing-coyerts blackish brown, the marginal ones uniform, the 

 median and greater series spotted with ashy white at the tips ; 

 bastard-win? and primary-coverts blackish, with small white tips ; 

 quills blackish, tho first primary whitish along the outer web; the 

 secondaries conspicuously tipped with white ; the inner secondaries 

 barred with black and resembling the scapulars ; tail-feathers 

 tawny rufous, black at the base, and tipped with white, before 

 which is a wavy sub-terminal bar of dusky blackish, the outer 

 feather regularly barrod with blackish : crown of head sandy 

 isabelline along the centre, with a broad black band on each side, 

 followed by an eyebrow of sandy colour, white above the lores, 

 across which, to the eye, is a broad black streak ; sides of face 

 white, with a blackish streak across the ear-coverts, which are 

 narrowly streaked with dusky: clucks and chin white; the throat 

 and chest sandy brown, mottled with blackish spots and bars: 

 breast and abdomen pure white ; sides of body conspicuously barred 



