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for basal two-thirds, yellower on base of under mandible, blackish brown 
on apical third; feet light yellgggish gray, with blackish brown claws; 
iris dark umber brown.’ (Swinhoe.) Length, 240; culmen, 58; wing, 
137; tail, 55; tarsus, 34. 
“Adult female-——Does not differ from the male. ‘Legs and feet pale 
bluish gray, nails black.’ (Hverett.) Length, 267; culmen, 66; wing, 
142; tail, 55; tarsus, 33. 
“Young birds—As with G. stenura so with the present species, the 
young birds appear to be distinguishable by their more uniform dark 
brown throat and chest; the stripes on the sides of the crown are also 
black and not mottled with rufous spots.” (Sharpe.) 
“Extremely abundant in rice-fields at certain seasons.” (Bourns and 
Worcester MS.) 
123. GALLINAGO GALLINAGO (Linnezus). 
FANTAIL SNIPE, 
Scolopax gallinago Linnmus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 147. 
Gallinago gallinago SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 633; Hand- 
List (1899), 1, 165; Oares, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 61; McoGrecor 
and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 29. 
Gallinago celestis OaTES, Bds. Brit. Burmah (1883), 2, 381. 
Can-du-ro’, Manila and Mindoro. 
Bohol (Everett); Leyte (Hverett); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Whitehead, Mc- 
Gregor) ; Mindanao (Mearns) ; Mindoro (McGregor). Europe to northern Asia; 
in winter Senegambia and northeastern Africa, Indian Peninsula to Malay Penin- 
sula and the Moluccas. 
“Male and female.—Crown black with a fulvous streak over median 
line ; a blackish streak from bill to eye, above and below which the feathers 
are pale fulvous; chin whitish ; throat and sides of head and neck fulvous, 
streaked with black; breast and sides of body fulvous, barred with black; 
abdomen and vent white ; under tail-coverts fulvous, streaked with brown; 
under wing-coverts barred indistinctly with black and white; tail black, 
the end rufous mottled with black; upper plumage black, edged and 
streaked with rich fulvous and chestnut; wing-coverts black, barred with 
fulvous; quills dark brown, narrowly edged with whitish. Bill fleshy 
brownish, green for two-thirds of its length from base, remainder horny 
brown ; iris very dark brown; legs and feet brownish green. Length, 267; 
tail, 61; wing, 127; tarsus, 30; bill from gape, 58.” (Oates.) 
“Adult female.——Similar to the male. Length, 267; culmen, 71; wing, 
135; tail, 62; tarsus, 33. 
“Young.—Differs from the adult in being more rufous, especially on 
the throat and neck. The black markings of the back are more broken 
up and mottled with rufous bars, and the pale outer bands along the 
scapulars are not so wide. Seebohm states that young snipes may be 
recognized by not having a dark shaft-line on the light tips of the 
