SGOLOPACIN.E. 



nut brown, x>chre-yello\v and ash-grey, with zigzag lines and 

 irregular spots of black ; throat white ; rest of the underparts 

 yellowish white, passing into rufous on the breast and forepart of 

 neck with cross wavy bars of dusky-brown ; quills barred ferru- 

 ginous and black ; tail black ; the outer webs edged rufous ; tips 

 ash-grey above, silvery-white beneath. 



The Woodcock only occurs within our limits as a rare cold 

 weather visitant. 



GENUS, Gallinago, Stephens. 



Tibia bare for a small space above the joint ; tail with 16 to 28 

 feathers, the outer ones often narrowed ; otherwise as in Scolopax. 



Gallinago nemoricola, Bodgs. 



868. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 672 ; Butler, Deccan ; 



Stray Feathers, Yol. IX, p. 428 ; Game Birds of India, Vol. Ill, 



p. 325. 



THE WOOD SNIPE. 



Length, ll'O to 12'5 ; expanse, 18'0 to 1975 ; wing, 5'4 to 57 ; 

 tail, 2*5 to 2-9 ; tarsus, 1'41 to T49 ; bill from gape, 4'9 to 61. 



Bill varies from drab to reddish-fleshy, tipped blackish-brown ; 

 irides hazel to deep brown ; legs bluish-grey to greenish. 



Top of the head black, with rufous-yellow longish markings ; 

 upper part of back black, the feathers margined with pale rufous- 

 yellow, and often smeared bluish ; scapulars the same, some of 

 them with zigzag markings ; long dorsal plumes black with zigzag 

 markings of rufous-grey, as are most of the wing-coverts ; winglet 

 and primary-coverts dusky -black, faintly edged whitish ; quills 

 dusky; lower back and upper tail-coverts barred reddish and 

 dusky ; tail with the central feathers black at the base, chesnut 

 with dusky bars towards the tip ; laterals dusky with whitish-bars ; 

 beneath, the chin white, the sides of the neck ashy, smeared with 

 buff and blackish ; breast ashy, smeared with buff and obscurely 

 barred ; the rest of the lower plumage, 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. 



The Wood Snipe is an extremely rare cold weather visitant to 

 parts of the Deccan. 



Gallinago sthenura, Kuhl. 



870. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 674 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 212 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 

 p. 428 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 239 ; Game 

 Birds of India, Vol. Ill, p, 339 ; S. stenura, Kuhl. ; Swinhoe 

 and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 133. 



THE PIN-TAILED SNIPE. 

 $. Length, 975 to 10'9 ; expanse, 15'5 to 17'4 ; wing, 4'95 



