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PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS: ZOOLOGY. 



Telmatias stricklandi, Reichenb. Grail, tab. LXX. fig. 998 (1850). 

 Scolopax spectabilis, Hartl. Naiim. 1853, p. 216 (Valdivia). 

 Xylocota stricklandi, Bp. C. R. XLIII. p. 579 (1856). 

 Gallinago paludosa, Scl. (nee Gm.), R Z. S. 1867, pp. 332, 339 (Chili). 

 Galliuago nobilis, Oust, (nee Sel.), Miss. Seient. Cap Horn, Oiseaux, pp. 

 126, 330 (189 1 : Orange Bay). 



General description. 



Size. — Adult male. Total length, about 14 inches. 



Wing, 6 inches. 



Culmen, 3.35 inches. 



Tail, 2.4 inches. 



Tarsus, 1.4 inch. 



Adult female. Total length, about 14.5 inches. 



Fig. 173. 



Gallinago stricklandi. Showing the pattern of the barring of the tail feathers. From a bird in 

 the British Museum. Two thirds natural size. 



Wing, 6. 1 inches. 



Culmen, 3.3 inches. 



Tail, 2.4 inches. 



Tarsus, 1.3 inch. 



Color. — Adult male. Pale tawny in general tone, with the conven- 

 tional snipe marking on the head and back. 



Head : Marked much as in G. paragitaycc but more tawny in general 

 tone and the striping of the head tawny buff. 



