NIDIFICATION OF GALLINAGO STEKUEA. 67 



while it is considerably smaller than the egg of the Common or 

 Fantail Snipe {Gallinago coelestis).* 



The eggs now referred to correspond in markings with the 

 eggs I referred to in the second instance I mentioned above, while 

 I have no reason to doubt that the snipe obtained in each case 

 wan other than Gallinago stenura. 



That snipe breed regulnrly in Ceylon I do not consider to 

 be the case, but I think it is unquestionable that a few do, and I 

 submit that the present instance may be taken as confirming that 

 view, even though it might be contended that the eggs I now 

 describe were not absolutely taken from under the snipe herself. 



Egi? of Gallinago stenura. 



' See Blanford. Birds Ind., vol. IV., 1 898. p. 286 and p. 293. 



