636 SCOLOPACIDJS. 



pale ferruginous and spotted with black; lesser coverts 

 pale ferruginous, each feather broadly edged with white, 

 within which is a concentric semicircle of black; rump 

 and tail-coverts deep brownish black, slightly bordered 

 with white ; tail tapering, of a pale brown orange colour, 

 beautifully spotted with black, the middle feathers centred 

 with dusky ; legs yellow, tinged with green ; under surface 

 of the wings elegantly barred with black and white. The 

 figure and description here given are taken, by permission, 

 from Mr. Gould's Birds of Europe. 



The wing, from its anterior bend to the end of the 

 longest quill-feather, measures six inches seven lines ; the 

 tarsus two inches ; naked part above one inch ; middle toe 

 one inch. Females rather larger. 



According to M. Temminck, part iv. page 415, M. 

 Nauman, in his Birds of Germany, tab. 196, has repre- 

 sented this species in three different states of plumage. 



It has been taken both in Holland and in Germany. 

 Mr. Gould has himself, as noticed, received this species 

 from Australia. 



