248 BIRDS 0¥ EGYPT. 



quills dusky, with chestnut bars ; underparts greyish white, 

 tinged with yellowish brown and barred with dusky pencil- 

 lings ; under tail-coverts yellowish, with black triangular 

 central spots ; legs flesh-coloui', tinged with grey ; beak flesh- 

 colour at the base, shading into dusky at the tip ; irides deep 

 brown. 



Entire length 13"8 inches ; culmen 2'8 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 7'8; tarsus 1-4. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 319. 



250. Gallinago major (Gm.). Solitary Snipe. 



This Snipe is not uncommon in Lower Egypt during the 

 winter, but does not range, to my knowledge, south of the 

 Delta, though it appears to me highly probable that it is to be 

 found in the Fayoom. 



Top of the head black, with pale brown markings and a 

 central line of the same colour ; in front of the eye a dark 

 i)i'own patch ; sides of the head and throat white, speckled 

 "fith dusky ; nape pale rufous with black spots ; back and 

 scapulars dark brown, the feathers partly edged with rufous 

 brown ; wings dusky, the greater wing-coverts edged with 

 white ; tail consisting of \^ feathers, which are tipped with 

 white and barred with black and chestnut ; underparts vai'ied 

 with transverse triangular bars of dark brown, and shaded on 

 the chest and flanks with ferruginous brown ; beak flesh- 

 colour at the base, shading into dusky brown at the tip ; legs 

 olive ; irides dark brown. 



Entire length 12'5 inches; culmen 2'4 ; wing, carpus to 

 tip, 5"5 ; tarsus r4. 



'• Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 320. 



