SCOLOPACIN A. 343 
backwards and outwards from the eye; the general plumage fine 
purplish-grey ; quills black; the greatly elongated tertiaries and 
scapulars dusky-slaty, drooping. 
Young birds have no black and want the white ear-tuft. 
The Demoiselle Crane is a common cold weather visitant to all 
suitable portions of the region. It is perhaps more sought after 
by shikaries than even the preceding. 
Trise, Longirostris. 
Bill more or less lengthened, slender, and feeble ; wings usually 
long and pointed ; tail short ; tarsus moderately long ; toes moder- 
ate, the exterior one generally joined to the middle-toe by a short 
web, and the hallux short and raised, absent in a very few. 
Famiuy, Scolopacida. 
Bill typically long, slender, in many somewhat soft towards the 
tip, in others hard throughout; wings lengthened, as are the 
tertials ; tail short ; tarsus moderately long ; toes slightly united 
by a very short web; plumage brown, of various shades, above 
white, more or less tinged brown or ashy beneath. 
SuB-FAMILY, Scolopacinee. 
Bill long, straight, rather soft, swollen at the tip, which is 
gently bent over the lower mandible; tarsus rather short; tail 
varying in the number of feathers. 
Genus, Scolopax, Lin. 
Bill long, thin, more or less rounded, of soft texture, swollen at 
the tip, and obtuse; upper mandible channelled for the greater 
part of its length, slightly bent downwards at the tips; lower 
mandible channelled only in the middle ; nostrils basal, longitudinal ; 
wings moderately long, very pointed ; first quill longest ; tail short, 
of twelve soft uniform feathers; tibia plumed to the jot; toes 
free to the base ; tarsus short, stout; hind-toe short. 
Scolopax rusticola, Lin. 
867.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 670; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 428; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 238; Game Birds of India, Vol. ITI, p. 309. 
THE WOODCOCK. , 
Length, 13:0 to 15:0; expanse, 23:0 to 255; wing, 7:2 to 8-0; 
tail, 3:0 to 3°85; tarsus, 135 to 1°57; bill from gape, 2°8 to 33; 
weight, 7 to 123 oz. 
Bill fleshy-grey, dusky at tip; irides dark-brown; legs fleshy- 
plumbeous. 
Forehead and crown ashy-grey, tinged rufous; a dusky streak 
from gape to eyes; occiput, with four broad transverse bars of 
blackish-brown ; the rest of the upper part variegated with ches- 
