608 SCOLOPACID^E. 



they rise, and soon get out of gunshot. This species, it need hardly be men- 

 tioned, is held in much esteem for the table. 



Gallinago gallinula. The Jud-Cock. 



1286. Gallinago gallinula (*.), Jerd., B. Ind, Hi. p. 676; 



Hume, Sir. F. iii. 182 ; Blyth, B. Burn. p. 157; Dav. et Oust. Ois Chine, 

 p. 479; Dresser, B. Eur, vii. p. 653; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 459; 

 Cripps, Sir. F. vii. p. 302; Hume, Sir. F. viii. p. 112; Legge, B. Ceylon 

 p 828; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds iii. p 373, pi. ; Hume, Sir. F. x. 

 p. 239 (note); Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 384; Murray, Vert. Zool., Sinrf, 

 p. 241. Scolopax gallinula, Linn.. Syst. Nal. i. p. 244. The JACK SNIPE or 



JUD-COCK. 



Crown of the head with a mesial longitudinal black streak from the top of 

 the upper mandible; on each side of this a yellowish or cream-coloured 

 streak extending above the eye as a superciliary, and in some specimens 

 separated from the orbital region by a dark streak ; a dusky line from the 

 gape to the eye, and another from below it curving downwards to the ear 

 coverts ; the space between the two streaks white or cream colour ; chin and 

 throat white, greyish, or pale brown ; sides of the head greyish, greyish white, 

 or brownish white, spotted with brown and pale red ; neck behind and nape 

 ferruginous or greyish brown, streaked or spotted with dusky; breast pale 

 yellowish brown or dusky, spotted or dashed with darker brown ; abdomen 

 white ; flanks dashed with brown and pale ferruginous; axillaries pure white, 

 with faint, almost obsolete dusky markings ; back and scapulars rich black, 

 with bronze green and purple reflections, the feathers of the upper back and 

 scapulars edged on their outer webs broadly with rich cream yellow, forming 

 two conspicuous longitudinal bands along each side; lower back and rump 

 glossy blue black (specimens in August very narrowly margined with albes- 

 cent) ; primaries dusky, the basal half of the first paler, no I while; inner 

 primaries narrowly margined at the tip with albescent ; secondaries dusky, 

 broadly tipped with white ; tertiaries dusky on their inner webs, spotted and 



