454 Mr. R. Swiuhoc on Birds from Hakodadi. 



baiTed and marked with shades of brown on the sides of the 

 underparts. This form of plumage I thought I knew in G. 

 scolopacina. I had frequently met with it in China in au- 

 tumn, but more or less occasionally in other months. I 

 turned up a specimen of both forms, shot near Pckin, in 

 September. I thought it might be G. major, Steph. (Schlcg. 

 Mus. d. Pays-Bas, ii. p. 7) ; but that is " Tres-reconnaissable 

 aux trois paires extenies des rectrices blanches, avec environ 

 3 barres foncees a la partie basale des barbes externes.^* I 

 carefully examined the tails of my two Pekin specimens, and 

 found them resembling one another, of 14 rectrices each, of 

 the ordinary form ; and the under wing showed less white than 

 usual, but not so little as the Japanese. The latter is cer- 

 tainly distinct from ours, and not the same bird in the dark- 

 sided plumage, which I find some of my G. stenura and G, 

 megala have affected. I fortunately possess a G. wilsoni from 

 Canada ; and this tallies completely with Blakiston^s speci- 

 men, except that it is a little larger in all its measurements. 

 The rectrices of both are similar and narrower than ordinary ; 

 but otherwise the form of the Common Snipe, even to the 

 spatulate expansion towards the tip of bill, is retained through- 

 out. I would note them under a consecutive number, 



104. Gallinago wilsoni, Temm. 



A female procured at Hakodadi in September. Distin- 

 guishable from G. scolopacina, which it resembles in form, by 

 its axillaries being barred uniformly with black and white. 



'' Macrorhamjjhus {^), one specimen, Oct., ?, Il|x5yf, 

 bill 2|. Legs and feet olive ; bill darker olive, and dark 

 horn-colour near the tip ; outer toe webbed to first joint ; up- 

 per mandible resting in lower till near the tip, and one tenth 

 longer. Long scapulars like Sandpiper's. Centre of back 

 white. White shafts to outer quill-feathers. Killed in com- 

 pany with Golden Plover.^' The above description shows 

 Blakiston's bird to be rather the American bii'd than our 

 allied M. semipalmatus, Jerdon. No specimen has come 

 forward. 



105. Calidris arenaria (L.). 

 One skin of this cosmopolitan bird. 



