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CHARADEIIDvE. 



Adult. Size large. Colour very dark ; the black on the head and 

 hack very intense and pronounced, and the mesial streak along the 

 centre of the crown almost obsolete ; the sandy markings and streaks 

 on the upper surface very broad and dull in tint ; the lower back 

 and rump dusky blackish, with narrow bars of dull white or dusky 

 brown ; the upper tail-coverts earthy brown, with a few dusky spots 

 or dusky bars on the lateral ones ; the black spots on the side of the 

 face and neck rather large and coarse ; the buff colour of the throat 

 and neck of a dull sandy brown, with dusky-blackish streaks on the 

 throat and bars on the chest, these being continued over the breast, 

 abdomen, and sides of the body ; the under tail-coverts very broadly 

 barred ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dusky brown, with 

 narrow bars of dull white : " terminal third of bill brown to blackish 

 brown, the basal two-thirds much paler, and with a tinge some- 

 times reddish fleshy, sometimes yellowish fleshy, sometimes livid, 

 sometimes drab ; front of legs and toes grey, sometimes (perhaps 

 commonly) bluish, sometimes more plumbeous or slaty, and some- 

 times with a drabby shade, or again greenish ; the back of the legs 

 and soles fleshy, sometimes bluish or dusky ; iris hazel or deep 

 brown " (A. 0. Hume). Total length 10-5 inches, culmen 2-65, 

 wing 5-7, tail 2*1, tarsus 1*5. 



Hah. Himalayas and hills of the Indian Peninsula, Assam and 

 Burma. 



a, b. Ad. sk. India. 



c. Ad. sk. India. 



d. Ad. sk. India. 



e. Ad. st. India. 



/. Ad. sk. Dhurnisala, Oct. 



g. Ad. sk. Kalsi, Dehra Dhoon, Feb. 2 



(G. King), 

 h. Ad. sk. 40 miles N.W. of Lakkipur, 



Jan. 4. 

 i. Ad. sk. Nepal. 



A-w. Ad. sk. Nepal. 



o,p. Ad. sk. Nepal (B. H. Hodgson). 



q. Ad. sk. Darjiling (Eccles). 



r. Ad. sk. Khasia Hills {Griffith). 



s. d ad. sk. Shillong, Assam, Oct. 24 (J. 



Cockburn). 

 t. Ad. sk. Khasia Hills (5000 ft.), Sept. 



u, v. Ad. sk. Mavmyo, 30 miles E. of Man- 



dalav, 3000 ft., Jan., March 



(A. E. English). 

 w. Ad. sk. Madras, Nov. 5. 



x. Ad. sk. Shevarov Hills, Dec. 28 (H. 



R. P.' Carter). 



India Museum. 

 Dr. Wallich [P.]. 

 Gould Coll. 

 General Hardwicke 



[P.]. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Hodgson Coll. 

 (Types of the species.) 

 India Museum. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 India Museum. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



E. W. Oates, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



14. Gallinago gigantea. 



Scolopax gigrantea, Temm. PI. Col. v. pi. 403 (1826 : ex Natterer 

 MSS.) ; Burm. Th. Bras. iii. p. 376 (1856 : Lagoa Santa) ; Pels. 



