344 SCOLOPACIN &. 
uut brown, ochre-yellow and ash-grey, with zigzag lines and 
irregular spots of black; throat white; rest of the underparts 
yellowish white, passing into rufous on the breast and forepart of 
neck with cross wavy bars of dusky-brown ; quills barred ferru- 
ginous and black ; tail black; the outer webs edged rufous; tips 
ash-grey above, silvery-white beneath. 
The Woodcock only occurs within our limits as a rare cold 
weather visitant. 
Genus, Gallinago, Stephens. 
Tibia bare for a small space above the joint; tail with 16 to 28 
feathers, the outer ones often narrowed ; otherwise as in Scolopaa. 
Gallinago nemoricola, Hodgs. 
868.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 672; Butler, Deccan ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 428; Game Birds of India, Vol. III, 
p. 325. 
THE Woop SNIPE. 
Length, 11:0 to 12°5; expanse, 180 to 19°75; wing, 5-4 to 57; 
tail, 2°5 to 2°90; tarsus, 1-41 to 1:49; bill from gape, 4°9 to 611. 
Bill varies from drab to reddish-fleshy, tipped blackish-brown ; 
irides hazel to deep brown ; legs bluish-grey to greenish. 
Top of the head black, with rufous-yellow longish markings ; 
upper part of back black, the feathers margined with pale rufous- 
yellow, and often smeared bluish; scapulars the same, some of 
them with zigzag markings; long dorsal plumes black with zigzag 
markings of rufous-grey, as are most of the wing-coverts; winglet 
and primary-coverts dusky-black, faintly edged whitish; quills 
dusky ; lower back and upper tail-coverts barred reddish and 
dusky ; tail with the central feathers black at the base, chesnut 
with dusky bars towards the tip ; laterals dusky with whitish-bars ; 
beneath, the chin white, the sides of the neck ashy, smeared with 
buff and blackish ; breast ashy, smeared with buff and obscurely 
barred ; the rest of the lower plumage, with the thigh-coverts, 
whitish, with numerous dusky bars; lower tail-coverts rufescent, 
with dusky marks, and the under wing-coverts barred black and 
whitish. 
The Wood Snipe is an extremely rare cold weather visitant to 
parts of the Deccan. 
Gallinago sthenura, Awhl. 
870.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 674; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 212 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
p. 428; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 239 ; Game 
Birds of India, Vol. III, p, 339; S. stenwra, Kuhl. ; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 133. 
THE PIN-TAILED SNIPE. 
3. Length, 9°75 to 109; expanse, 15:5 to 174; wing, 495 
