SCOLOPACIN A. 347 
than they do. It is much addicted to remaining in one spot, 
generally a corner, and if often disturbed or even shot at, returns 
to the same spot. In some seasons considerable numbers are 
met with ; at others they occur more rarely. 
Genus, Rhynchea, Cuvier. 
Bill shorter than in Gallinago, slightly curved downwards at 
the tip ; wings rather short, broad, slightly rounded, beautifully 
ocellated ; second quill longest, first and third sub- -equal ; tail of 
14 or 16 feathers, slightly rounded, short ; tarsus long ; tibia much 
denuded. 
Rhyncheea bengalensis, Zin. 
873.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 677 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 15; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 428; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 242 ; Game 
Birds of India, Vol. III, p. 381; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 133. 
THE PAINTED SNIPE. 
6. Length, 9:25 to 100; expanse, 168 to 18:0; wing, 49 to 
5:2; tail, 15 to 18; tarsus, 1°65 to 1°88 ; bill at front, 1:65 to 
185 ; weight, 3°5 to 4°9 oz. 
we Length, 9°75 to 10°89 ; expanse, 18:0 to 19°25; wing, 5:25 
to 5°6 ; tail, 1°6 to 2; tarsus, 1:75 to 1: 96; bill at front, 1°8 to 
2°05 ; . weight, 4-4 to 6-42 oz, 
The bill is very variable, typically it is a pale fleshy-brown, 
darker or purer brown towards the tip and with a greenish tinge 
towards the base ; irides vary from hazel to deep brown ; legs 
and feet usually greenish, but are also subject to variation. 
Upper plumage more or less olivaceous, the feathers finally 
marked with zigzag dark lines, and the scapulars and inner 
wing-coverts with broad bars of black, edged with white; a 
median pale buff line on the head, and another behind and 
round the eye ; scapulars with a pale buff stripe asin the snipe ; 
wing-coverts mottled and barred with pale olive and buff; quills 
olivaceous-grey, with dark narrow cross lines, blackish towards 
base on the outer web, and with a series of five or more buff 
ocelli on the outer web; the inner web with white cross bands 
alternating with the ocelli, and gradually changing to buff on the 
tertials ; tail olivaceous-grey, with four or five rows of buff ocelli 
on both webs and tipped with buff; chin whitish ; neck, throat, 
and breast olivaceous-brown, With whitish spots or bars ; the lower 
parts from the breast white, passing on the sides of the breast 
towards the shoulder, and becoming continuous with the pale 
scapulary stripe. 
The female is darker and plainer colored above; the wing- 
coverts and tertials dark olive with narrow black cross lines, the 
outermost tertiaries white, forming a conspicuous white stripe ; 
