678 CHARADRIIDA 



2. Scolopax saturata. 



Scolopax saturata, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 191 (1821 : 



Mount Prahu, Java, 7000 ft.) ; id. Zool. Research. Java, pi. 63 



(1824); Less. Compl. Buff. Ois. iii. p. 420 (1887); Reichenb. 



Grail, tab. cccliv. fig. 2780 (1851) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 579 (1856) ; 



Schl. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 432, pi. vi. fig. 71 (1857) ; id. Dierent. 



p. 248 (1864) ; id. Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 3 (1864 : Java) ; 



Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 36, note ; Sol. 8r Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 419 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 54, no. 10353 (1871) ; Leqge, B. Ceylon, 



p. 808 (1880) ; Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind. xlv. p. 107 



(1885: Mount Salak, Java) : Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 127 (Java), 



1887, pp. 283-285 ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 506, pi. xxi. 



(1888) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1889, pp. 108-112. 

 Rusticola javanica, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 555 (1831 : Java). 

 Gallinago saturata, Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. p. 59 (1824) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 583 (1846). 

 Scolopax russata (?tec Gould), Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 36, note. 

 Scolopax rosenbergi, Schl. Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iv. p. 54 (1871 : 



New Guinea) ; Rosenb. Reist. naar Geelvinkb. p. 144 (1875) ; id. 



Malay. Archip. pp. 563, 595 (1879) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. 



xviii. p. 331 (1882); id. Orn. Papuasia etc. iii. p. 335 (1882); 



Guillem. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 665 ( Arfak) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 128 ; 



Salvad. Ibis, 1889, pp. 108-112; id. Agg. Orn. Papuasia etc. iii. 



p. 205 (1891). 



Adult. General colour above rufous, thickly mottled with black, 

 ■which takes the form of bars, and here and there of blotches, 

 principally on the mantle, scapulars, and inner secondaries ; crown 

 of head also rufous, barred with black, and having one broad band 

 of black between the eyes, another on the nape, and another, very 

 narrow one, just below it on the hind-neck ; the wing-coverts like 

 the back; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills uniform blackish, 

 •with a few small chequered rufous spots on the outer primaries, 

 larger on the secondaries, the innermost of which are barred ; tail- 

 feathers black, the tips of the feathers ashy above and silvery-white 

 beneath ; beyond a sub-terminal narrow bar of rufous, nothing but 

 a few spots of this colour on the tail ; a buffy-white patch on each 

 side of the forehead, followed by a line of black from the bill to the 

 eye ; chin and fore part of cheeks white ; the throat, chest, and 

 sides of body rufous, distinctly and somewhat broadly barred with 

 blackish, especially on the flanks; the under tail-coverts rufous, less 

 broadly barred with blackish ; centre of the breast and abdomen 

 whit», regularly barred across with blackish ; the under wing- 

 coverts dusky blackish, with indistinct rufous bars ; lower primary- 

 coverts and quill-lining blackish, with a few rufous spots on the 

 outer edge of the primaries ; axillaries dusky blackish, with faint 

 narrow bars of rufous. Total length 10*5 inches, culmen 3-25, 

 wing 5*75, tail 1*9, tarsus 1-5. 



I have only seen two skins from Java ; in the one presented to the 

 Museum by Dr. Vorderman the colour is rather browner than that 

 of the New Guinea specimens, and the bars on the breast are not so 

 black, while the vermiculations on the wing-coverts are finer and not 

 so coarse. The specimen, however, appears to be immature ; and I 



