64 CHABADBIIDiE. 



■shape to pyriform and have a considerable amount of gloss. They 

 range from pale olive to olive-buff and dark buff, and they are 

 spotted and blotched with dark umber-brown and pale underlying 

 purple. On some specimens these markings are bold and are 

 chiefly distributed over the broad end ; on others they are small 

 and sometimes streaky, rather evenly distributed over the whole 

 :shell. One undersized specimen in the Collection measures 1'3 by 

 •95. Ordinary examples measure from 1-Q7 to 1"S2 in length, and 

 from I'l to 1'3 in breadth. 



1. Paraguay. O. V. Aplin, Esq. [P.]. 



1. Chile. Old Collectiou. 



4. Central Chile {Landheck). Berkelev James Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands. Gould Coll. 



2. Falkland Islands. Voy. II. M. S. ' Challenger,' 



2. Falkland Islands (C. C. Abbott). Salvin-Godiuan Coll. 



1. Falkland Islands. Old Collection. 



Gallinago solitaria, Hodgs. 

 (Plate III. fig. 9.) 



Scolopax solitaria, Seebohm, Geoffr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 475 (1887) ; id. 



Ibis, 1891, p. 378. 

 Gallinago solitaria, Hmne ^ Marsh. Game Birds Lid. iii. p. .333 (1880); 



Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 654 (1890) ; Oates, Game Birds 



Ind. ii. p. 44« (1899) ; Sharpe, Rand-l. i. p. 166 (1899). 

 Gallinao-o nenioricola, Oates, ed. Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, iii. 



p. 350 (1890).* 



The eggs of the Himalayan Solitary Snipe are pyriform and 

 fairly glossy. They are easily distinguished from the eggs of all 

 the other Snipes in the Collection by reason of their pinkish-buff 

 ground-colour. The markings, consisting of spots and blotches, 

 are deep chocolate-brown, reddish brown, and pale underlying 

 purple. Some specimens are marked pretty evenly all over with 

 small and distinct blotches ; others with confluent blotches, which 

 form huge patches on the larger half of the egg. Many of the 

 blotches are streaky, and make an angle with the major axis, 

 seeming to be, as it were, twisted round the egg from right to 

 left, when the specimen is viewed with the broad end uppermost as 

 represented in the figure. Eight specimens measure from 1-7 to 

 1-8 in length, and from 1-25 to 1-3 in breadth. 



3. Native Sikhim, I8th June (Z. Man- Hume Coll. 



delli). 

 3. Ta-tsieu-lu, Tibet, 12,000 feet Seebohm Coll. 



{A. E. Pratt). 

 2. Ta-tsien-lu, 12,000 feet {A. E. P.). Seebohm Coll. 



* As I have already pointed out in my.' Game Birds of India,' the eggs 

 which Mr. Mandelli attributed to G. nciHoricola are really those of the 

 present species. 



