70. GALLINAGO. 655 



Gallinago australis, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mies. p. Ill (1844 r 

 Tasmania; Upper Hunter River) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 688 (1^4<>) ; 

 Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 98 (1854: Australia); By. 

 C. R. xliii. p. 579 (1856) : Blakist. litis, 1863, p. 100 (Hakodadi; ; 

 Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 10 (1864 : Australia) ; Gould, 

 Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 271 (I860); Ramsay, Ibis, 1866, p. 334 

 (Port Denison) ; Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 226 (Hakodadi); Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. iii. p. 52, no. 10331 (1871) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1874, p. 163 

 (Hakodadi, May) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. i. p. 1SJ0 

 (1877) ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 339 (N.E. Queensland) ; id. Proc 

 Linn. Soc. N.S. IF. ii. p. 198 (1878) ; Blakist. $ Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 222 (Japan) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 26 (Hakodadi) ; Ridgv. 

 Proc.U.S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 331 (1882) ; Blakist. $ Pryer, B. Japan, 

 p. 114 (1882: Fuji, June, July, breeding); Salvin, Cat. St rick/. 

 Coll. p. 607 (1882: N. S. W.) ; Jouy, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. 

 p. 316 (1883 : Japan) ; Blakist. Amended List B. Japan, pp. 12, 

 37(1884); Seebahni, Ibis, 1886, p. 133 (Japan); Ramsay, Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) ii. p. 172 (1888 : Derby, N.W. Australia) ; 

 id, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 20 (1888 : Australia generally & Tas- 

 mania) : Sharpe, Btis, 1888, p. 203 ( Palawan) ; North, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. W. (2) iii. p. 1778 (1889 : Cumberland, N. S. W.) ; 

 Cox 4" Hamilton, op. cit. iv. p. 420 (1890 : Mudgee Distr., Sept. to 

 Feb.) ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. 1892, p. 7. 



Telmatias (Scolopax) australis, Reichenb. Grail, tab. ccclv. figs. 2786— 

 87 (1850). 



Adult male. Similar to G. gallinago, but a larger and stouter 

 bird, tbe general tone of the stripes and markings of the upper 

 surface being of a dark sandy isabelline, rather than rufous ; this is 

 especially the case with the feathers of the hinder neck, and the 

 paler colour on the scapulars causes the black to stand out con- 

 spicuously, and imparts a strongly mottled appearance to the upper 

 surface. The tail-feathers are 18 in number, the two outer ones 

 attenuated, but- not less than - 3 inch in width. The flanks are 

 not so closely barred as in G. gallinago, and the under tail-coverts 

 are pale rufescent, not so rufous as in the last-named species : 

 " basal half of bill yellowish olive, the remainder dark brown ; 

 legs yellowish tinged with olive ; iris dark brown " (J. Gould). 

 Total length 11*5 inches, culnien 2-7, wing 6*5, tail 2-6, tarsus 

 1-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 11*5 inches, 

 culmen 2 - 7, wing 6, tail 2-3, tarsus 1*4. 



Hah. Breeding in Japan, aud passing in winter by Formosa to 

 Australia and Tasmania. 



a-c. Ad. sk. Hakodadi, Japan, April, Aug., Tweeddale Coll. 



Sept. 



d. Ad. sk. Hakodadi, May ( T. Blakiston). Seebohm Coll. 



e,f, g, h. Ad. sk. Yokohama {Pryer $■ Snow). Seebohm Coll. 



t. Ad. sk. Yokohama, April (Snow). Tweeddale Coll. 



k. Ad.sk. Formosa (R. SwinJioe). Seebohm Coll. 



l,7n. J $ad. sk. Australia. Seebohm Coll. 



n. Ad.sk. Australia. Tweeddale Coll. 



0. Ad. sk. Australia. Gould Coll. 



