GALLINAGO 55 



Chaha-Charai (Ooriya) ; Tiburl, Pan-lawa (Mahr) ; Mor - Ulan 

 (Tarn.) ; Muku-pwodi (Tel.) ; K;esivat,uiua (Cingalese) : Dao-didap 

 (Cachari) ; Vok-ti-alin (Kuki) ; Ti-inrui (Naga) ; Yc-gnon (Cliindwin) ; 

 Pazimbon (Kyanks6, Kacliin Hills). 



Description. Adult Male. — Crown to nape dark brown or blacki&h- 

 brown, with a few specks of pale rufous ; a broad median stripe 

 and broad superciliaries reaching back to the neck pale rufous ; 

 a line from the bill through the eye and over the ear-coverts 

 dark brown ; sides of the head rufous speckled with brov/n ; neck 

 rufous blotched with brown and with two fairly definite lines of 

 brown on lower throat and neck ; chin and upper throat plain 

 unspotted rufous. Back velvety-black, the scapulars with broad, pale 

 rufous edges, which form a longitudinal line down each side of the 

 back. Upper back much speckled and barred with rufous, lower 

 back barred with pale rufous ; upper tail-coverts rufous barred with 

 wavy lines of black and with obsolete shaft streaks; tail black with 

 narrow bars and a broad terminal band of rufous. Lesser wing- 

 coverts brown, tipped rufous, median coverts barred with rufous and 

 brown, and greater coverts brown with white tips. First primary 

 brown with white outer web, other primaries brown with narrow 

 white strips, increasing in width on the innermost ; secondaries 

 barred brown and black, and mottled with white on the inner web. 

 Breast dull buff or brownish, with dark brown bars; flanks the same; 

 abdomen white ; under tail-coverts rufous or buff' and brown, the 

 former colour predominating. Lesser under wing-coverts white, 

 much barred with brown, principally so on the edge of the wing ; 

 median under wing-coverts white, seldom with any barring at all ; 

 greater coverts brown with a broad white edge ; axillaries white 

 more or less barred with brown. 



Colours of Soft Parts — " Bill rufous-brown, paler at the base ; 

 irides deep brown, legs olive-green. Tail feathers 14 or 16 in 

 number." {Blanforcl.) 



" The bills have the terminal one-fourth or more deep brown to 

 blackish ; the rest pale brown or horny-brown with a yellowish tinge, 

 dark along the edges, often brownish-green just at the base of the upper 

 mandible, and generally yellowish, yellowish-green, or olive on the 

 basal fourth (more or less) of the lower mandible ; the irides are deep 



