71. LI11N0CRYPTES. 665 



what wavy and very broad ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and 

 quills uniform blackish brown, the inner secondaries banded with 

 rufous and black like the inner greater coverts : tail-feathers 

 blackish brown, barred with rufous on the centre ones, the outer 

 ones narrowed and perfectly uniform blackish ; sides of the crown 

 blackish brown, with a rufous streak along the centre ; sides of face, 

 throat, and chest chestnut, with black spots on the sides of the face 

 and a black band below the eye, the throat broadly streaked and the 

 breast barred with black ; the lower breast, abdomen, sides of body, 

 and under tail-coverts white, broadly barred with black ; under 

 wing-coverts and quill-lining uniform blackish brown, the axillaries 

 blackish with a few narrow white bars. Total length 11 inches, 

 culmen 3 m 5, wing 6, tail T95, tarsus 1*3. 

 Hab. U.S. Colombia. 



a. Ad. sk. Bogota, U.S. Colombia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



71. LIMNOCRYPTES. 



Type. 

 Limnocryptes, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 118 (1829) L. gallinula. 



Philolimnos, Brehni, Vog. Deutschl. p. 023 (1831) .... L. gallinula. 

 Ascalopax, Keys. S,- Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. lxxvii (1840) . L. gallinula. 

 Range. The same as that of the single species of the genus. 



1. Limnocryptes gallinula. 



The Jack-Snipe or Jud-cock, Albin, Nat. Hist. B. iii. p. 81, pi. 86 

 (1840). 



La Petite Beccassine, Briss. Orn. v. p. 303, pi. xxvi. fig. 2 (1760) 

 D'Aubent. PL Enl. viii. pi. 884; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 490 

 (1780). 



Scolopax gallinula, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 244 (1766) ; Gm. Syst. 

 Nat. i. p. 662 (1788) ; Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. p. 281, cum tab. 

 (1803); Meyer tif Wolf, Orn. Taschenb. p. 364 (1810); Pall. 

 Zooyr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 175 (1811) ; VieiU. N. Diet. (THist. Nat. 

 iii. p. 369 (1816) ; Temm. Man. tFOrn. ii. p. 678(1820) ; Werner, 

 Atlas, Grail, pi. 31 (1827) ; Fleminy, Brit. Anim. p. 106 (1828) ; 

 Rou.v, Orn. Prov. pi. 302 (1825) : Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 556 

 (1831); Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr. p. 206 (1835) ; , StrickL 

 P. Z. 8. 1836, p. 101 (Smyrna); Naum. Toy. Deutschl. viii. p. 344, 

 pi. 210 (1836) ; Gould, B. Bur. iv. pi. 322 (1837) ; Crespon, Orn. 

 Gartl, p. 444 (1840) ; Nordm. in Dcmid. Voy. Buss. Merid. iii. 

 p. 251 (1840: Odessa); 8chl. Per. Crit.y. lxxxvi (1844); Hewits. 

 Eyys Brit. B. ii. p. 30!), pi. lxxxvi. fig. 3 | 1 8 16) : Thomps. B. Lrel. ii. 

 p. 278(1850); Middena. ReiseSibir.,Zool.f. 224(1851: Boganida 

 River, 70- N. lat., .June, breeding); Man/ill. Brit. B. it. p. 380 

 (1852); Kjarb. Damn. Fugle, Ta? . 37. tig. 4 (1852); Schl. Vog. 

 Nederl pL 223 (1854); Sundev. Sv. Fog I. pi. 44. fig. 4 (1859); 

 Taylor, Ibis, L859, p. 53 (Egvpt) ; Powi/s, Ibis, 1 >(>(), p. 343 

 (Iouiau Islands) ; F. $ P. Go'dmau, Ibis, 1861, p. 90 (Bodo) ; 

 Madde, Bets. Sibir., Vog. p. 338 (1863); Wright, Ibis, 1864, 

 p. 147 (Malta); Sperling, t. c. p. 288; Smith, Ibis, L868,_p. 455 

 (Portugal); Stevens. Ii. Norf. ii. p. 334 (1870); R. Grau,B. West 

 JScotl. p. 313 (1871); Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. p. 69 (1873); 

 Palmcn, Finl. Fog I. p. 241 (1ST 3) ; Saxby, B. Shetl. p. 205 (1874); 



