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for basal two-thirds, yellower on base of under mandible, blackish brown 

 on apical third; feet light yellowish gray, with blackish brown claws; 

 iris dark umber brown/ (Swinhoe.) Length, 240; culmen, 58; wing, 

 137; tail, 55; tarsus, 34. 



"Adult female. Does not differ from the male. 'Legs and feet pale 

 bluish gray, nails black.' (Everett.) Length, 267; culmen, 66; wing, 

 142; tail, 55; tarsus, 33. 



"Young birds. As with 0. stenura so with the present species, the 

 young birds appear to be distinguishable by their more uniform dark 

 brown throat and chest; the stripes on the sides of the crown are also 

 black and not mottled with rufous spots." (Sharpe.) 



"Extremely abundant in rice-fields at certain seasons." (Bourns and 

 Worcester MS.) 



123. G ALL! N AGO GALLINAGO (Linnams). 

 FANTAIL SNIPE. 



Scolopax gallinago LINN^US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 147. 



Gallinago gallinago SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 633; Hand-' 



List (1899), 1, 165; GATES, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 61; MCGREGOR 



and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 29. 

 Gallinago caiestis OATES, Bds. Brit. Burmah (1883), 2, 381. 



Can-du-ro f , Manila and Mindoro. 



Bohol (Everett)-, Leyte (Everett); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Whitehead, Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Mindanao (Mearns) ; Mindoro (McGregor). Europe to northern Asia; 

 in winter Senegambia and northeastern Africa, Indian Peninsula to Malay Penin- 

 sula and the Moluccas. 



"Male and female. Crown black with a fulvous streak over median 

 line ; a blackish streak from bill to eye, above and below which the feathers 

 are pale fulvous ; chin whitish ; throat and sides of head and neck fulvous, 

 streaked with black ; breast and sides of body fulvous, barred with black ; 

 abdomen and vent white ; under tail-coverts fulvous, streaked with brown ; 

 under wing-coverts barred indistinctly with black and white; tail black, 

 the end rufous mottled with black; upper plumage black, edged and 

 streaked with rich fulvous and chestnut; wing-coverts black, barred with 

 fulvous; quills dark brown, narrowly edged with whitish. Bill fleshy 

 brownish, green for two-thirds of its length from base, remainder horny 

 brown ; iris very dark brown ; legs and feet brownish green. Length, 267 ; 

 tail, 61; wing, 127; tarsus, 30; bill from gape, 58." (Oates.) 



"Adult female. Similar to the male. Length, 267 ; culmen, 71 ; wing, 

 135; tail, 62; tarsus, 33. 



"Young. Differs from the adult in being more rufous, especially on 

 the throat and neck. The black markings of the back are more broken 

 up and mottled with rufous bars, and the pale outer bands along the 

 scapulars are not so wide. Seebohm states that young snipes may be 

 recognized by not having a dark shaft-line on the light tips of the 



