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Gallinago nobilis, Scl. 



(Plate III, fig. 11.) 



Gallinago nobilis, Scl. S,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 547 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 



B. M. xxiv. p. 648 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 165 (1899). 

 Scolopax nobilis, Seehohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 498 (1887). 



The eggs of the Noble Snipe are as large as those of the Wood- 

 cock, The two specimens in the Collection are bluntly pyriform, 

 and possess a small amount of gloss. They are pale olive-buff, 

 spotted, streaked, and blotched with chocolate -brown and dull 

 underlying purple. In one example the markings are all rather 

 small, well-defined, and distinct. In the other, many of them are 

 large and coarse, running into each other and forming large 

 blotches. The two eggs measure respectively : 1'8 by 1'3 ; 1"S5 

 by 1-3. 



2. Retire, Autioquia, U.S. Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 {T. K. Salmon). 



Gallinago macrodactyla, Bp. 



Gallinago bernieri. Cowan, Pr. R. Phys. Soc. Edin. vii. p. 149 (1882). 

 Gallinago macrodactyla, Harting, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 355 ; Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 649 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 165 (1899). 

 Gallinago nigripeunis, var. bernieri, Milne-Edwards ».y Grandidier, Hist. 



Nat. Madag., Ois. ii. p. 637, pi. 306. fig. 8 (1885). 

 Scolopax nobilis macrodactyla, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, 



p. 499 (1887). 



The sole egg of the Madagascar Snipe in the Collection is of a 

 narrow oval shape, much compressed at the smaller end. It has 

 a small amount of gloss. The ground is of a rather dark buff 

 colour, and this is marked, more densely at the larger end than 

 elsewhere, with spots and small blotches of chocolate-brown. The 

 underlying markings of pale grey are very faint and inconspicuous. 

 The example measures 1-78 by 1"2. 



1. Fianarantsoa, Madagascar ( W. Deans Seebohm Coll. 

 Cowan : Harting Coll.). 



Gallinago paraguayae (T.). 



Scolopax paraguaiae, Yarrell, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 54. 

 Gallinago magellanicus, Abbott, Ibis, 1861, p. 156. 

 Gallinago paraguayaj, -SW. ^- Salv. Zool. ' C/iallcnger' E.vped. ii. pt. viii. 



p. 109 (1880) ; Jame.% New List Chilian Bird's, p. 11 (1892) ; Aplin, 



Ibis, 1894, p. 207, pi. v. fig. 8 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 



p. 650 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 165 (1899). 

 Gallinago frenata, Scl. Zool. ' Challenger' E.rped. ii. pt. viii. p. 151 



(1880). 

 Scolopax frenata ruagellanica, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. CharadriidfefTp. 496 



(1887). 

 Scolopax frenata chilensis, Seebohm, tom. cit. p. 496. 



The eggs of the Paraguayan Snipe vary from a pointed oval 



