342 LiMicoLiij:. 



once connected the toes in all the species comprised in the Limicolae. 

 In subdividing the Charadiiidic, it seems as if Strepsilas and R/njn- 

 cfuea must be expelled from the Scolopacime, and Limosa, Macro- 

 rhamphus, and Ercuiieies admitted. 



346. SCOLOPAX AUSTRALIS. 

 (LATHA]\rS SNIPE.) 

 Scolopax mtstralis, Latham, Index Orn., Suppl. p. Ixv (1801). 



Latham's Snipe is a large bird (wing from carpal joint G| to G 

 inches). It has 18 tail-feathers, of which only two on each side are 

 less than -3 inch in width. 



Figures: Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 40. 



Latham's Snipe is a common visitor to the Japanese Islands, 

 probably breeding in Yezzo, and certainly doing so on the mountains 

 of Southern Japan. There is an example from Ilakodadi in the 

 Swinhoc collection, procured by Captain Blakiston in May (Swinhoe, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 163), and there are three examples in the Prycr 

 collection from Yokohama. I have also an example obtained by 

 Mr. Owston in the Yokohama market on the 4th of April. 



Latham's Snipe is probably confined to Japan during the breeding- 

 season, but in autumn it passes the Philij)])ine Islands and the coasts 

 of China on its migration to winter in Australia. 



347. SCOLOPAX SOLITARIA. 

 (JAPANESE SOLITARl' SNIPE.) 



Gallinago solitaria, Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 8. 



The Solitary Snipe is a large bird (wing from carpal joint 6* !■ to 

 6 inches). It has many feathers on tiic upper j)arts, csj)ecially the 

 outer margins of the scapulars, streaked with white instead of buff. 



The typical form is slightly larger (wing 64 to 6*8 inches), has 

 fewer bars on the lower breast, broader pale dorsal stripes, and more 

 vhitc marbling near the tips of the primaries. 



I'igures : Tenmiinck and Sehlegcl, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. OH. 



'I'lie .hipnncM' race of tlic Solilaiy Snipe is a residint ii\ Japan. 



