144 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Species. 
a’. Tail-feathers twenty or more, Hater ones stiffened and very narrow; dark 
bars on axillars wider than the white bars. 
b*. Tail shorter, about 48 mm.; outer feathers narrower............ stenura (p. 144) 
b*. Tail longer, about 53 mm.; outer feathers widetr.................... megala (p. 145) 
a*, Tail-feathers usually fourteen in number, neither excessively stiff nor narrow; 
dark bars on axillars narrow or obsolete..................----.-.---- gallinago (p. 146) 
121. GALLINAGO STENURA (Bonaparte). 
PINTAIL SNIPE. 
Scolopax stenura BONAPARTE, ex Kuhl MS. Ann. Stor. Nat. Bolonga (1830), 
4, 335. 5 
Gallinago stenura SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 619; Hand-List 
(1899), 1, 165; McGrecor and WorRcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 29. 
Calayan (McGregor); Mindanao (Murray); Palawan (White). Eastern Si- 
beria to the Yenesei; in winter China to Malay Peninsula. 
“Adult male in breeding plumage.—Above blackish, striped and mottled 
with sandy isabelline; streaks on the sides of back and scapulars very 
broad; upper surface interspersed with rufous spots, but general color 
of the light markings sandy buff, especially on hind neck; wing-coverts 
dark brown, marginal series almost uniform, the rest barred with rufous 
or sandy buff, with paler tips, the rufous and black bars very distinet 
on the greater coverts, where they are regularly indicated; alula and 
primary-coverts blackish, with narrow white tip; quills blackish, the 
first primary browner on outer web, which is narrowly fringed with 
white; secondaries (outermost of which do not exceed primary-coverts in 
length) narrowly fringed with white at tip, inner ones barred with rufous 
and blackish, mostly on outer web; innermost long secondaries barred 
across, especially near the ends; tail-feathers blackish brown, ten central 
ones with a broad band of pale chestnut, followed by a subterminal bar 
of blackish brown, before a pale rufescent tip; a second rufous band, con- 
siderably broken up, a little beyond the middle of the feather; eight outer 
feathers on each side becoming narrower and narrower, till the outermost 
has scarcely any web at all; these wire-like feathers with white tips, with 
an indication of a blackish subterminal bar; crown black, mottled with 
rufous spots and having a mesial streak of sandy isabelline; a loral line 
of black, surmounted by a supra-loral patch of sandy isabelline continued 
into a narrow eyebrow; sides of face and ear-coverts isabelline, rufous 
just behind eye, entire sides of face having more or less distinct small 
streaks of blackish, and traversed by a broad blackish line across ear- 
coverts; fore part of cheeks and chin sandy isabelline; throat and chest 
sandy buff, slightly mottled with streaks and narrow horseshoe-shaped 
bars of blackish; breast and abdomen white; sides of body slightly tinged 
with sandy buff, and distinctly barred with black; under tail-coverts 
pale sandy buff, with blackish centers, longer ones narrowly barred with 
