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resemblance to G. megala, with which presumably Davison was not 

 acquainted, but which has, of late years, been proved to occur in 

 considerable numbers both in the Malay Peninsula and in the 

 Madras Presidency. No specimens of 0. ncmoricola shot by Davison 

 are included in the Hume collection now in the British Museum. 



89. Gallinago g^allinago (Linn.). 



Scolopax gallinago, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, p. 244 (Europe). 



Gallinago cnelestis, G., p. 152 (Ratburi and Petch^iburi). 



Gallinaqo qallinago, Sharpe, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv, 1896, 

 p. 641 (Salanga Id). 



The Fantail will be found in every large bag of snipe obtain- 

 ed in Siam, especially in the middle of the season. It is very 

 common at Bangkok, where (fide Williamson, in litt.) it usually 

 arrives in the latter half of September, i. e., a month or so later than 

 the Pintail, and also leaves earlier. The latest recorded date for the 

 Fantail in Bangkok is 30th March, by which date it is getting 

 scarce, although the Pintails are still numerous. 



90. Gallinago sthenura (Kuhl). 



Scolo2)ax sthenura, Kuhl, Bonap. Ann. Stor. Nat. Bologna, iv, 1830, 



fuse, xiv, p. 335 (Sunda Islands). 

 Gallinago ■•-tenura, A., p. 459 (Pakchan) ; Sharpe, Oat. Birds Brit. 



Mus. xxiv, 1896, p, 622 (Salanga Ids.); E., p. 117 (Patani) ; 



F., p. 14 iTrang) ; G., p. 152 (Ratburi and Petchaburi) ; L,, p. 



91 (Pualu Paiijang). 



1 6. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam. 7 April, 1919. [No. 5141]. 



Total length 255; wing 126; tail 50; tarsus 32; bill from 

 gape 61 mm. 



" Iris dark ; bill yellowish brown, apical third black ; feet grey, 

 toes darker." 



According to Williamson (in litt.), the Pintail arrives in 

 Bangkok during the first half of August : the earliest recorded date 

 is the 10th. 



Gallinago megala Swinh. 



Gollinago megala, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1867, p 343 ( Pekin ). 



There are no actual records of this Chinese Snipe from Siam, 



A. Hume & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E. O. Grant, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 190.5, 



B. Miillor, Die Ornis der Tnsel Salantja, 1882. F. Robinson and Kloss, Diis, 1910-11. 



C. Oatcs, Birds Brit. Burniah, Vols, i & ii, 1883. C. (iairdner, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, 191.5. 

 O. Bonhote, P. Z. H. liX)l, Vol. i. H. Itobinson, Journ. F. M, S. Museums, v, 1915. 



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