Scolopax roseubergi and S. saturata. Ill 



SCOLOPAX SATURATAj Horsf. 



Scolopax saturata, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 191 

 (1821) (type examined) ; id. Zool. Res. in Java, pi. 63 (1824-) 

 (Mount Prahu, 7000 ft., Java) ; Less. Compl. de Buff. ii. 

 p. 680 (1837) ; Kcbb. Grallatores, tab. cccliv. f. 2780 (1851) 

 (ex Horsfield) ; Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 579, n. 167 (1856); 

 Scbleg. Handl. Dierk. i. p. 432, pi. vi. f. 71 (1857) ; id. 

 Diereut. p. 248 (1864) ; id. Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 3 (Java, 

 Boie) (1864) ; BIyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 36 (note, Derby Museum) ; 

 Sclat. et Salv. V. Z. S. 1869, p. 419; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. 

 p. 54, n. 10353 (1871) ; Gieb. Tbes. Orn. iii. p. 467 (1877) ; 

 Vorderm. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xlv. p. 107 (1885) (Mount 

 Salak) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 127; id. Ibis, 1887, p. 283 

 (partim) ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 506 (partim), pi. xxi. * 

 (1887). 



Gallinago salurata, Stepb. Gen. Zool. xii. p. 59 (1829); 

 G. R. Gr. Gen. B. iii. p. 573, u. 26 (1846). 



Rusticola javanica, Less. Tr. d^Orn. p. 555 (1831). 



Scolopax 7-u$sata iu Mus. Derb., Blytb, Ibis, 1865, p. 36 

 (note) . 



Rufo et nigro transfasciolata, subtus pallidior, pectore medio 

 albicante ; remigibus omnibus f usco-nigris, exterius rufo 

 maculatis ; tectricibus remigum primariorum fusco- 

 iiigris, rufo maculatis ; subalaribus fusco-nigris, rufo 

 fasciolatis. Long. tot. circa 300 mm., al. 154 mm., 

 caud. 52 mm., rostri 7Q mm., tarsi 35 mm. 



* I have been greatly puzzled by the figure iu Mr. Seebohm's work, as it 

 does not at all give one the idea either of 6'. saturata or of S. 7-ose)ibergi, so 

 that the thought struck me that it had been taken from an indifierent figure 

 of S. saturata in Schlegel's ' Handleidiug tot de beofeningder Dierkunde/ 

 pi. vi. f. 71. To ascertain this point, I wrote to Mr. Keulemans, asking 

 him from which specimen the plate of »S'. saturata had been drawn. I 

 think it important to quote his answer : " The figure of Scolopax saturata 

 to which you refer in your letter was taken from two different drawings 

 — the first, a water-colour drawing, made at the Leyden Museum by a 

 painter who cannot paint birds ; the second from the small figure of 

 Schegel's 'Handl. Dierkmide ' (as you suggested)." After this we may 

 declare that the plate in Mr. Seebohm's work, not made from an actual 

 specimen, is a very bad one, as completely wanting in characters, and 

 not giving at all the idea of the bird. 



