GALLINAGO. 605 



with the thigh coverts, whitish, with numerous dusky bars ; lower tail coverts 

 rufescent, with dusky marks, and the under wing coverts barred black and 

 whitish. Bill reddish brown, paler at base beneath ; irides dusky brown ; legs 

 plumbeous green. (Jerd.) 



Length. 12*5 to 13 inches ; wing 575 ; tail 2-5 ; bill at front 2-6: tarsus 

 175. 



Hal. The Himalayas, Neilgherries, Coorg, Wynaad and other elevated 

 regions in Southern India, affecting brushwood in swampy ground. 



1283. Gallinago solitaria (Hodgs.), 7. A. S. E. vi. p. 491 ; Jerd., 



B. Ind.'m. p. 673, No. 869; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds iii. p. 333. 

 The EASTERN SOLITARY SNIPE. 



Head above brown, with pale mesial and superciliary lines ; a dark band 

 from the base of the bill extending towards the ear coverts ; upper plumage as 

 in G. scolopacinus, except that the feathers are more spotted and barred with 

 rufous ; a pale buff stripe along scapulars and inner edge of the wing ; prima- 

 ries brown, with a narrow pale edging externally and the innermost tipped with 

 white ; secondaries and tertiaries broadly barred with dark brown and pale 

 rufous ; tail deep black at base, with a broad subterminal band of bright ashy 

 rufous, tipped brown, and the extreme tip pale ; outermost rectrices finely 

 barred ; breast olive brown, with white dashes of white and brown bars, passing 

 into white on the abdomen and vent, with some olivaceous bands on the upper 

 belly and flanks ; sides of the vent and under tail coverts whitish. Bill reddish 

 brown ; irides dark ; feet greenish yellow. 



Length. 12-5 inches; wing 6-25 ; tail 3-2 ; bill at front 275; tarsus 1-2. 



Hab. Throughout the Himalayas from Gilgit to Central Bhootan. During 

 the summer it is said to be confined to the higher ranges from elevations of 

 9,000 feet and upwards to at least 15,000 feet, where they breed during May and 

 June. 



1284. Gallinago stenura (Kuki.\ Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 674 ; 



G. F. L. Marshall, Sir. F. i. p. 423 ; Cripps, Sir. F. i. p. 456; Hume, Sir. 

 F. ii. p. 294 ; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 459 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. Stnd, 

 p. 239 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 816; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 383. Scolopax 

 stenura Kuhl., Bonap. Osserv. Sulla, sec. Ediz. Regn. Anim. Cuv. Monog. 

 Scolopax, p. 121. The PIN-TAIL SNIPE. 



Crown dark brown or black, with a mesial longitudinal pale line ; face 

 white, divided by a dark line from the nostrils to the eye and extending to the 

 ear coverts ; there is also in some specimens a faint line from the ear coverts 

 to in front of the neck on each side, but not meeting ; chin and throat white ; 

 neck in front and behind pale fawn brown, barred, streaked or spotted with 

 brown or dark brown ; sides of the abdomen like the breast, and transversely 

 barred ; middle of abdomen white, barred in some specimens ; upper back, 



