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being white or nearly so ; and there are 

 none of the large black patches on the 

 back and scapulars which characterise the 

 Wood-Snipe. 



The forehead and crown are dark brown, 

 mottled with rufous, and with an inter- 

 rupted whitish band down the middle of 

 the latter. There is a broad brown band 

 connecting the eye and the bill, and above 

 this, on either side of the forehead, a 

 whitish band running from the upper man- 

 dible backwards to the eye. The whole 

 upper plumage, and the lesser and median 

 upper wing-coverts are very beautifully 

 barred with black or brown, chestnut, and 

 whitish, the scapulars having a broad 

 whitish margin to the outer web. The 

 upper tail-coverts are rufous grey, the tip 

 of the longer feathers cross-barred. The 

 middle eight tail-feathers are black, termi- 

 nated with chestnut, a wavy black bar, and 

 a whitish tip. The remaining narrower 

 feathers are white, with broad black bars. 

 The greater upper wing-coverts are brown, 

 margined with white at the tip. The 

 primaries and the outer secondaries are 

 dark brown, conspicuously margined with 

 white at the tip ; the first three primaries 

 with the margin of the outer web also 

 white. The inner secondaries are richly 



