GALLINAGO 77 



Turning to Plate B, the same remarks as to tone and depth of 

 colouration apply to the wings of solitaria and nemorlcola as to the 

 heads in Plate A. 



It is necessary also to point out that the wing of G. galUnacjo is 

 that of a rather darkly, heavily-barred bird. The median wing- 

 coverts are generaUtj pure white in this species, and do not show 

 the heavy markings at the bases which we see in these drawings. 

 The axillaries also (these are the four long feathers at the base of the 

 drawings) vary, as I have explained above, from pure white in typical 

 G. c. racldei to others which are even more heavily barred than those 

 in the plate. 



As regards Plate C, all I need remark is that we must remember 

 when examining it that some of the colouration which appears in this 

 to be white is really a faint rufous. Even allowing for this, however, 

 both the Fantail and Pintail more often than not have tails a good 

 deal less marked with white than those shown here as examples of 

 those birds. 



