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black near their ends; under wing-coverts and axillars distinctly barred 
with black and white, white bars on the latter slightly wider than the 
black bars; lower primary-coverts ashy; quills ashy below, secondaries 
fringed with white at the ends. ‘Basal half of upper bill horny, distal 
half blackish brown ; basal half of lower bill greenish, remainder blackish 
brown; feet greenish; iris brown.’ (Cripps.) Length, 223; culmen, 58; 
wing, 124; tail, 48; tarsus, 30. 
“Adult female——Does not perceptibly differ from the male in color 
and markings. Length, 240; culmen, 62; wing, 129; tail, 44; tarsus, 30. 
“Tt is very difficult to distinguish young birds from old ones, and I 
believe that the only characters of any value are the uniform black 
stripes along the sides of the crown. In old birds, not only are these 
black stripes mottled with rufous, but there are also numerous small spots 
of rufous-buff interspersed among the black feathers of the back; the 
black subterminal marks on the scapulars are also smaller in the young 
birds than in the old. A further sign of immaturity is, I believe, to be 
seen in the nearly uniform fulvous-brown on the throat and fore neck, 
these portions being more mottled with lines and arrow-head spots of 
black in the old birds. 
“From G. gallinago the present species is distinguished by the wire- 
like feathers in the tail and by the entire surface of the under wing- 
coverts being regularly barred with black and white, and the outer web 
of the first primary being whity-brown instead of pure white. Occa- 
sionally young birds of G. stenwra have the whole of the breast and 
abdomen regularly barred with dusky.” (Sharpe.) 
122. GALLINAGO MEGALA Swinhoe. 
SWINHOE’S SNIPE, 
Gallinago megala SwWINHOE, Ibis (1861), 343; Sarre, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. (1896), 24, 624; Hand-List (1899), 1, 165; McGrrecaor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 29. 
Can-du-ro’, Manila. 
Bantayan (McGregor) ; Basilan (Steere Hxp., McGregor) ; Calamianes (Bourns 
& Worcester); Cebu (Hverett); Leyte (Everett); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon 
(Jagor, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Masbate (Bourns & Wor- 
cester) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Min- 
doro (McGregor) ; Negros (Bourns & Worcester); Palawan (Whitehead, Bourns 
€ Worcester); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Siquijor (Bourns € Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). Eastern 
Siberia and Japan; in winter China south to the Moluccas. 
“Adult male-—Similar to G. stenwra, and with wire-like outer tail- 
feathers, but these not so narrow and showing at least two distinct bars 
towards the ends; the tail-feathers twenty in number, of which the seven 
outer ones are attenuated, and only the six central ones show the charac- 
teristic broad subterminal band of rufous. ‘Bill light yellowish brown 
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