GALLINAGO GALLINULA 107 



GALLINAGO GALLINULA. 



THE JACK SNIPE. 



Scolopax gallinula, Linn. S. N. i, p. 244 (1766) ; Secbolm, Chara- 

 driidae, p. 480. 



Gallinago gallinula, Blijth, Gat. p. 272 ; Jcirlon, B. of I. iii, p. 676 ; 

 Hume, S. F. i, p. 235 ; Adam, ibid. p. 395 ; Butler, ibid, iv, p. 15 ; 

 Fairbank, ibid. p. 263; id. ibid. v. p. 410; Hume d Dav. ibid, vi, 

 p. 459 ; Dav. & Wendon, ibid, vii, p. 88 ; Ball, ibid. p. 228 ; CnpiK, 

 ibid. p. 302 ; Hume, ibid. p. 484 ; id. Cat. No. 872 ; Scully, S. F. 

 viii, p. 356 ; Legge, B. of Ceij. p. 828; Hume d Marsh. Oame-B. iii, 

 p. 373 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 89 ; Butler, ibid. p. 428 ; Beid, ibid, s, 

 p. 69 ; Eden, ibid. p. 165 ; Davidson, ibid. p. 320 ; Davison, ibid. 

 p. 314 ; Taylor, ibid. p. 465 ; Oates, B. of B. B. ii, p. 384 ; Barnes, 

 B. of Bom. p. 346 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 321 ; W. Gaye, J. B. N. H. S. 

 vi, p. 418 ; Stuart Baker, ibid, xii, p. 501 ; A. L. Butler, ibid, xiii, 

 p. 149 ; Inglis, ibid, xiv, p. 771 ; Marshall, ibid, xv, p. 354 ; Wall, 

 ibid. p. 72; Macdonald, ibid, xvii, p. 500; Dresser, Pal. Birds, ii, 

 p. 763 ; Blanford, Avifauna of B. I. iv, p. 292 ; Bahr, Ibis, 1907, 

 p. 29 ; Dresser, Eggs of E. B. p. 690 ; Finn. In. Waders, p. 150 ; 

 Bahr, P. Z. S. June, 1907, p. 28; Harington, J. B. N. H. S. xix. 

 p. 311 ; Bloech, ibid, xxiii, p. 777 ; Delme-Badcliffe, ibid. xxiv. p. 166 

 (1915) ; Currie, ibid. p. 575 (1916) ; Wait, Spolia Zeylanica, x, 

 p. 239 (1916) ; Stoncy, J. B. N. H. S. xxv, p. 306 (1917). 



Limnocryptes gallinula, Sharpe, Cat. B.M. xxiv, p. 665; id. Hand-L.i, 

 p. 166 ; Oates, Game-B. ii, p. 131 ; /(/. Cat. Eggs, B. M. ii, p. 66. 



Vernacular Names.— C7(0^ft Chaha (Hin.) ; Chota Bharca (Nepal) ; 

 Otan (Tamil) ; Tibad, Pan Kaiva (Mahrati) ; Daodidap Gajiba 

 (Cachari). 



Description. Adult Male. — Crown to nape velvety black, stippled 

 with rufous, a very broad supercilium pale buff; sides of the head 

 dull white marked with rufous-brown, and two broad brown streaks 

 running from the bill, the upper through the eye, the lower under the 

 ear-covert. Hind neck rufous stippled with white and dark-brown ; 

 back, scapulars and rump black, glossed with purple and green, 

 varying in different lights, the outer webs of the scapulars buff, 

 forming two bands, and the inner more or less barred with rufous ; 

 upper tail- coverts and tail dark-brown with rufescent-bufl' borders. 

 Lesser and median wing-coverts deep-brown or black, with very pale 



