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(6) Middle of abdomen not barred, save in exceptional 
specimens. Length about 10°5 inches. 
(1) Secondary quills with noticeable white tips. 
No pin feathers in tail. 
Gallinago celestis (Common or Fantail Snipe). 
(2) Pin feathers in tail, secondaries with 
narrow inconspicucus white tips or 
none. 
Gallinago stenura (Pin-tailed Snipe). 
B.—Bill under 2 inches; no pale band down middle of 
crown ; back glossed with green and purple. 
Gallinago gallinula (Jack Snipe). 
Ill.—Sexes different in plumage ; bill curved downwards 
at the tip; wing quills with ocellate buff spots. Genus 
Rostratula. 
Rostratula capensis (Painted. Snipe). 
ScoLOPAX RUSTICULA (Blanford, Vol. IV., p. 283 ; 
Legge, p. 806). 
The Woodcock. 
(Plate IT., fig. 11.) 
Description —Upper plumage blackish-gray mottled with 
black and rufous ; forehead and fore part of crown grayish ; 
the top of the head and the nape black with two tawny 
crossbars ; a dark broad stripe from the gape of the bill to 
the eye and another down the cheek ; the rest of the head 
and neck buff with black spots. The wing coverts and 
tertiaries are barred with dusky brown and rufous; the 
primary coverts, primaries, and secondaries are black-brown 
notched with rufous. The rump and upper tail coverts are 
barred black and rufous ; tail black, the outer webs of the 
feathers with rufous markings and the tips dark gray above, 
silvery white underneath. The chin is more or less white ; 
the lower parts whity-brown barred across with dark brown. 
Bill dark brown, fleshy-brown near the base; iris dark 
brown ; legs and feet grayish-drab or lead colour. 
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