670 CHAEADEIID^. 



u". Ad. 8k. Taiwan, Formosa, Dec. (M. Seebohm Coll. 



Swinhoe). 

 v"-b 3 . Ad. sk. Yokohama, Nov., Feb. (H. Seebohm Coll. 



Pryer Sf 0. Snoiu). 

 •c 3 . $ ad. sk. Hakodadi, Oct. 3 (H. Tweeddale Coll. 



Whitely). 



72. NEOSCOLOPAX. 



Type. 



Neoscolopax, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 331 



(1882) N. rochusseni. 



Range. Confined to the Moluccas. 



1. Neoscolopax rochusseni. 



Scolopax rochusseni, Schl. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 254 

 (1866) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 54, no. 10354 (1871) ; Legge, 

 B. Ceylon, p. 808 (1880) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 128; id, Geogr. 

 Distr. Charadr. p. 505, pi. xx. (1888) ; Salvad. Agg. Orn. Papuasia 

 etc. iii. p. 205 (1891). 



Neoscolopax rochusseni, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 331 

 (1882) ; id. Orn. Papuasia etc. iii. p. 336 (1882). 



Adult. General colour above black, with large markings of rufous 

 •ochre, distributed as broad terminal spots or bars ; the upper 

 mantle entirely black in the centre ; the lesser wing-coverts black, 

 with a few small spots of rufous ochre, the median and greater 

 series tipped and barred with rufous ochre ; the bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills black, chequered with notches of rufous 

 ochre on the outer web ; the inner secondaries barred on the outer 

 web and spotted on the inner web with the same colour : lower 

 back and rump black, with small ochreous spots ; the upper tail- 

 coverts rufous ochre, broadly barred witb black ; tail-feathers black, 

 notched with sandy rufous, principally near the end of the outer 

 web, tho tips of the feathers rufous ochre, smudged with ashy and 

 silvery white below ; forehead sandy buff, slightly freckled with 

 blackish, and followed by a broad black band from eye to eye, 

 another on the occiput, another on the nape, and another on the 

 hind-neck, these broad bands separated by a narrow bar of sandy 

 buff ; a large loral space of ochraceous buff, with a broad band of 

 black from the gape to the eye ; sides of face and under surface of 

 body ochreous buff, with a few black spots and bars on the former 

 and a line of black across the ear-coverts ; the sides of the body 

 with black bars, more or less distinct ; under wing-coverts rufous 

 ochre, barred with black ; lower primary-coverts and quill-lining 

 black, notched with rufous ochre on the margin of both webs. 

 Total length 15 inches, culmen 3-6, wing 7*6, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-8. 



Hob. Obi Islands. Ternate ? 



.a. Ad. sk. [Ternate.] Seebohm Coll. 



