70. GALLINAGO. gg3 



Hah. Auckland Islands j Antipodes Island ; Snares Islands. 

 a '\-> t^Htf 1 ' Auckland l8lands - Antarctic Exped. [C.]. 



d ' l^A£St Auckland Islands - ■fc fl S5cft. 



f ' c J r8]. 8k ' [W * 4 '°' Aucldaud Islands - Sir George Grey [P.]. 



ff 'c A -2-hf k ' [W ' 4-1 ' Aucklaud Islands - Colonel Bolton [P.]. 



^'c.^isf' [W ' 4 '°' Auckland Isla ^s. SeebohmColl. 



'' c. 2-35]! k ' [W ' 4 ' 1 ' Auckland lslands - Salvin-Godman Coll. 



A,Ad,8k - Enderby Island, Auck- McCormick Bequest, 



land group, Dec. 3 

 (R. McCormick). 



Subsp. a. Gallinago huegeli. 

 GaHinago aucklandica {nee Gray), Hugel, Ibis, 1875, p. 391 (Snares 



Scolopax aucklandica (pt.), Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 130; id Geoar 

 Distr. Charadr. p. 472 (1888). * ' y 



SS t S , nares . Is1 -); ** /6 «> 1893, p. 447; 2to/fe r , JW ^ ew 

 Zeal. Inst. xxvn. p. 112 (1895). 



^«fcmafe Similar to 0. aucklandica, but altogether darker and 

 having the under surface regularly barred with blackish, not only on 

 the flanks but also on the breast and abdomen. The upper surface 

 is also remarkable for the narrow sandy-buff fringes to the feathers, 

 which have the black sub-terminal spots very small. Total length 

 9 inches, culmen 2-25, wing 4-3, tail P7, tarsus 0-9. 



lf^Tf? °i Tf n -T' ke n raC °' a kind of " Sabino ' s Sni Pe " form, as 

 Mr. Rothschild aptly calls it, of G. aucklandica. It is the prevalent 

 form on the Snares, but in the llothschild collection there are also 

 three specimens from the Auckland Islands and one from Antipodes 

 Island. x 



Hah. Snares Island. 

 a. d ad. sk. Snares Island, Jan. Hon. Walter Rothschild [P.]. 



Subsp. j3. Gallinago pusilla ». 

 Gallinago pn,illa, //„//,,., flfr I8QQ p . 41 (Chatham Tsl.) ■ Hutton, 



m *> J*' 2 ' P- ™ (Mangare, Chatham Isl.) ; Tracers, Trans. 



* Gallinago ciiatua.mica. 



Gallinago chathamica, Forbes, Ibis, 1893, p. 545 (Chatham Isl.). 

 The skulls on which Dr. Forbes founded the present, species seem to belong 

 to a , du met form of Snipe from any of those inhabit ins; the Chatham or 

 of them * PFeSent day- U Was a PP arentl y a lar g er bir J t ha " ™J 



a-i. Skulls. Chatham Island. Forbes' CoU. 



(Types of the species.) 



