846 SCOLOPACINA. 
59; tail, 25 to 29; tarsus, 1'2 to 134; bill from gape, 2:39 to 
27; bill at front, 2:43 to 2°75; weight, 33 to 51 oz; average, 
415 02. 
?. Length, 9°2 to 12°5; expanse, 16:0 to 18:25; wing, 4°87 to 
571; tail, 23 to 3:0; tarsus, 1:25 to 1:33; bill from gape, 2°5 to 
29; bill at front, 2°62 to 3:0; weight, 3:1 0z. to 5:5 oz.; average, 
4°27 0oz.; average of both sexes, 42 oz. : 
Bill horny-brown, tip blackish, brownish-green at base; irides 
deep blackish-brown ; legs and feet greenish. 
Crown black, divided longitudinally by a yellowish-white line ; 
a dusky brown eyestreak, and a yellowish superciliary one; back 
and scapulars velvet-black, crossed with chesnut-brown bars, and 
with longitudinal streaks of ochre-yellow ; wing-coverts dusky- 
brown, edged with reddish-white; quills blackish; chin and 
throat white; cheeks, neck and breast above mottled black and 
ferruginous: flanks barred white and dusky; the lower part of 
the breast and abdomen pure white ; tail black with the terminal 
third red-brown, barred black and tipped whitish ; lower wing- 
coverts white, very faintly barred. 
The Fantail Snipe is a common cold weather visitant through- 
out the region. 
Gallinago gallinula, Zin. 
872.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 676; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 15 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
p. 428 ; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 241; Game 
Birds of India, Vol. III, p. 373; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India; Ibis, 1885, p. 133. 
THE JACK SNIPE. 
Length, 7°75 to 90; expanse, 13°25 to 1489; wing, 41 to 
4°67; tail, 187 to 2°5; tarsus, 0°89 to 0°95; bill from gape, 1:5 
to 1‘7; bill from front, 1°54 to 1°74; weight, 1:53 oz. to 2°48 oz. 
Bill blackish-brown at tip, paling towards base; irides deep 
brown ; legs and feet pale-greenish. 
Crown divided by a black band slightly edged with reddish- 
brown, extending from the forehead to the nape; beneath this 
and parallel to it are two streaks of yellowish-white, separated 
by another of black ; a dusky line between the gape and the eye ; 
back and scapulars black, glossed with green, and with purple 
reflections; the scapulars with the outer webs creamy-yellow, 
forming two conspicuous longitudinal bands extending from the 
shoulder to the tail; quills dusky ; wing-coverts black, edged with 
pale brown and white; throat white; neck in front and upper 
breast pale yellow-brown tinged with ashy, and with dark 
longitudinal spots ; lower breast and belly pure white ; tail dusky, 
edged with pale ferruginous. 
The Jack Snipe is generally distributed throughout the region 
during the cold weather. It is, however, much less common than 
either of the other two, arriving later, and departing earlier 
