70. GALLINAGO. 659 



Orn. Bras. pp. 312, 458 (1871 : Ytarare", Jan., Feb., April ; Del- 

 gada, Aug.; Jaguaraiba, Sept.; Muruuigaba, April; Vpanema, 

 Sept.; Puritis, Oct.). 



Gallinago gigautea, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 583 (1846) ; Schl. Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 8 (1864) ; Scl. $ Salv. Exotic Orn. p. 196 

 (1869) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 58, no. 10340 (1871) ; Scl. $ 

 Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 145 (1873) ; Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 v. p. 149 (1893 : Matto Groaso). 



Telniatias gigantea, Reichenb. Grail, tab. lxix. fig. 504 (1850). 



Gallinago lacunosa, Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 93 (1854 : 

 Montevideo ; Paraguay). 



Xylocota gigantea, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 579 (1856). 



Scolopax undulata gigantea, Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 131 ; id. Geogr. 

 Distr. Charadr. p. 493 (1888). 



Adult. The largest of the Snipes. The lower back and rump, as 

 well as the greater coverts, very distinctly barred with black ; the 

 quills narrowly barred with huffy white or sandy buff, irregular 

 in pattern towards the ends ; tail-feathers rufous, narrowly barred 

 with black. Total length 19 inches, culmen 5-15, wing G - 0, tail 2"1, 

 tarsus 2'2. 



Hab. Brazil and Paraguay. 



a. <5 ad. sk. Puritis, Brazil, Oct. 8 {J. Nat- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



terer). 



b. Ad. sk. Villa Pica, Paraguay, June N. L. Ilolden, Esq. 



1892. [P.]. 



x:, d. Ad. 8k. Buenos Ayres, April 1886. Seebohm Coll. 



15. Gallinago undulata. 



Beccasse des Savanes de Cayenne, D'Aubent. PI. Enl, viii. pi. 895. 

 La Becasse des Savanes, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 481 (1780). 

 Scolopax undulata, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 54 (1783) ; Seebohm, Lbis, 



1886, p. 131 ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 492 (1888). 

 Savanna "Woodcock, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 132 (1785 : 



Cayenne). 

 Scolopax paludosa, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 661 (1788) ; Cab. in Schomb. 



Reis. Guian. iii. p. 758 (1848). 

 Homoptilura undulata, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 70 (1840). 

 Gallinago undulata, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 683 (1846) ; Scl 8f Salv. 



Exotic Orn. p. 196 (1869); Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 53, no. 10339 



(1871) ; Scl. §■ Salr. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 145 (1873) ; Salrin, 



Ibis, 1886, p. 179 (British Guiana). 

 Telmatin-i paludosa, Rfirhenb. Grail, tab. lxix. fig. 562 (1850). 

 Gallinago paludosa, Licht. Nomencl. Ac. Mus. /Urol. p. 93 (1854 : 



Guiana; Cayenne); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 8 (l>ti4 : 



Cayenne). 

 Xylocota undulata, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 579 (1856). 



Adult female. Distinguished by its large size. Of the same group 

 as G. gaUinago and 6. delicata, with a light streak down the centre 

 of the crown, but very much larger. The lower back, rump, and 

 upper tail-covert s, as well as the coverts and secondaries, very 

 distinctly barred with black. All the quills with moro or less 



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