660 CHAKADEIID^!. 



perfect narrow bars of sandy buff, very distinct on the secondaries. 

 Total length 14 inches, culmen 4-1, wing 6-5, tail 2, tarsus 1*7. 

 Hah. Apparently confined to Guiana. 



a. <$ ad. ; b, c. $ Merume Mts., British Guiana, Salvin-Godrnan Coll, 



ad. sk. July (H. Whitely). 



d. $ ad. sk. Roraima, British Guiana, Jan. 3 Seebohni Coll. 



(H. Whitely). 



16. Gallinago stricklandi. 



Gallinago stricklandi, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 112 (1844: 

 Hermit Isl.) ; id. Gen. B. iii. p. 583 (1846) ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, 

 Scolopaces, p. 15 (1864); Set. $ Salv. Exotic Orn. p. 196 (1869) ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 54, no. 10349 (1871) ; Scl. # Salv. 

 Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 145 (1873) ; Sharpe,P. Z. S. 1881, p. 15 

 (Swallow Bay) ; Ridgtv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 202 (1881) ; 

 Oust. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, Ois. p. 293 (1891) ; James, New List 

 Chilian B. p. 12 (1892). 

 Scolopax stricklandi, Gray, Voy. ' Erebus ' ty ' Terror,' Birds, pi. 23 

 (1846) ; Sharpe, t. c. App. p. 37 (1875) ; SeeboAm, Lbis, 1886, 

 p. 130 ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 448 (1888). 

 Scolopax meridionals, Peak, U.S. Expl. Exped. p. 229 (1848 : Orange 



Bay) ; Cass. t. c. 2nded. p. 310, pi. 35. fig. 1 (1858). 

 Telmatias stricklandi, Reichenb. Grail, tab. lxx. fig. 998 (1850). 

 Scolopax spectabilis, Harll. Naumannia, 1853, p. 216 (Valdivia). 

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

 Gallinago paludosa {nee Gm.), Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 332, 339 



(Chili). 

 Gallinago nobilis (nee Scl.), Oust. Miss. Sci. Cap Horn, vi. Ois. 

 p. B 126 (1891 : Orange Bay). 

 Adult male. Of large size and pale tawny colour, with the usual 

 black markings of an ordinary Snipe ; the pale streaks along the 

 scapulars and sides of the back not very strongly indicated ; a pale 

 tawny-buff streak down the centre of the crown ; primary-coverts 

 and primaries plain brown, with slight indications of sandy-buff 

 spots or fringes at the tips, the first primary brown externally, with 

 regular chequered indentations of pale buff ; the secondaries broadly 

 barred with rufous and black, the black bars being the narrower, 

 the inner greater coverts also broadly barred externally with rufous ; 

 tail regularly barred with black and dull rufous, the black bars 

 being the broadest, the centre feathers for the most part black ; 

 ander surface of body sandy buff, whiter on the chin ; the abdomen 

 uniform buff, the throat spotted, the chest mottled and imperfectly 

 barred, and the flanks regularly banded with black, the under tail- 

 coverts also barred with blackish ; the under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries barred with dusky brown and sandy buff, the brown bars 

 being slightly the broadest. Total length 13*5 inches, culmen 3 - 35, 

 wing 6, tail 2*3, tarsus 1*4. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but slightly smaller : " feet 

 greyish yellow; iris dark" (Dr. Coppinger). Total length 1T5 

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

 Hab. The Straits of Magellan to Chili. 



