124 SCOLOPACID^. 



in G. scolopacmus, except that the feathers are more spotted and barred with 

 rufous ; a pale buff stripe along scapulars and inner edge of the wing ; prima- 

 ries brown, with a narrow pale edging externally and the innermost tipped with 

 white ; secondaries and tertiaries broadly barred with dark brown and pale 

 rufous ; tail deep black at base, with a broad subterminal band of bright ashy 

 rufous, tipped brown, and the extreme tip pale ; outermost rectrices finely 

 barred ; breast olive brown, with white dashes of white and brown bars, passing 

 into white on the abdomen and vent, with some olivaceous bands on the upper 

 belly and flanks ; sides of the vent and under tail coverts whitish. Bill reddish 

 brown ; irides dark ; feet greenish yellow. 



Length. — 12*5 inches ; wing 6-25 ; tail 3-2 ; bill at front 275 ; tarsus \'2. 



^a3.— Throughout the Himalayas from Gilgit to Central Bhootan. During 

 the summer it is said to be confined to the higher ranges from elevations of 

 9,000 feet and upwards to at least 1 5,000 feet, where they breed during May and 

 June. 



153. Gallinago stenura (^Kuhi.), Jerd., B. Ind. Hi. p. 674; 



G. F. L. Marshall, Str. F. i. p. 423 ; Cn'pps, S/r. F. i. p. 496 ; Hume, Str. 

 F. ii, p. 294 ; Etane andDav., Str. F. vi. p. 459 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, 

 p. 239 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 816; Oates, B. Br. Biirm. ii. p. 383 ; Murray, 

 Avif. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 60S, No. 1234. Scolopax stenura KuhL, Botiap. 

 Osserv. Sulla, sec. Ediz. Regn. Anim. Cuv. Monog. Scolopax, p. 12 1. — The 

 Pin-tail Snipe. 



Crown dark brown or black, with a mesial longitudinal pale line ; face 

 white, divided by a dark line from the nostrils to the eye and extending to the 

 ear coverts ; there is also in some specimens a faint line from the ear coverts 

 to in front of the neck on each side, but not meeting ; chin and throat white ; 

 neck in front and behind pale fawn brown, barred, streaked or spotted with 

 brown or dark brown ; sides of the abdomen like the breast, and transversely 

 barred ; middle of abdomen white, barred in some specimens ; upper back, 

 scapulars and wing coverts brown, darker on the mantle and scapulars, the 

 feathers of which are broadly edged with yellow and spotted and streaked with 

 rusty ; the scapulars, tertials and wing coverts barred w^ith the same ; lower 

 back, rump and upper tail coverts rufescent brown, barred with dusky ; under 

 wing lining and axillaries white, distinctly and richly barred with blackish 

 brown ; tail basally dark brown, followed by a large oval rufous or rufous 

 buff patch, and a narrow subterminal dark band, tipped pale rufous or the 

 colour of the oval patch ; primaries and their coverts, also the secondaries, 

 pale brown or dusky, narrowly margined at the tip with white, both webs 

 unicolorous. 



Length. — 975 to 10 inches ; wing 4-8 to 5-4 ; tail 2 to 2'5 ; tarsus ri2 to 

 1*25. Females are larger. Legs and feet plumbeous with a greenish tinge; 

 irides deep brown ; bill 2-2 to 2-6; gape and base of bill greenish ; rest of bill 



