346 SCOLOPACIN^J. 



5-9; tail, 2'5 to 2'9 ; tarsus, 1'2 to 1'34 ; bill from gape, 2'39 to 

 27 ; bill at front, 2-43 to 275 ; weight, 3 "3 to 51 oz. ; average, 

 415 oz. 



?. Length, 9'2 to 12'5 ; expanse, 16'0 to IS'25 ; wing, 4'87 to 

 571 ; tail, 2'3 to 3'0 ; tarsus, 1'25 to 1*33 ; bill from gape, 2'5 to 

 2*9 ; bill at front, 2'62 to 3'0 ; weight, 31 oz, to 5'5 oz. ; average, 

 4*27 oz. ; average of both sexes, 4'2 oz. 



Bill horny-brown, tip blackish, brownish-green at base ; irides 

 deep blackish-brown ; legs and feet greenish. 



Crown black, divided longitudinally by a yellowish-white line ; 

 a dusky brown eyestreak, and a yellowish superciliary one ; back 

 and scapulars velvet- black, crossed with chesnut-brown bars, and 

 with longitudinal streaks of ochre-yellow ; wing-coverts dusky- 

 brown, edged with reddish-white ; quills blackish ; chin and 

 throat white ; cheeks, neck and breast above mottled black and 

 ferruginous ; flanks barred white and dusky ; the lower part of 

 the breast and abdomen pure white ; tail black with the terminal 

 third red- brown, barred black and tipped whitish ; lower wing- 

 coverts white, very faintly barred. 



The Fantail Snipe is a common cold weather visitant through- 

 out the region. 



Gallinago gallinula, Lin. 



872. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 676 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IV, p. 15 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 

 p. 428 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 241 ; Game 

 Birds of India, Vol. Ill, p. 373 ; Swinhoe and Barne-s, Central 

 India; Ibis, 1885, p. 133. 



THE JACK SNIPE. 



Length, 775 to 9'0; expanse, 13'25 to 14'89 ; wing, 41 to 

 4-67; tail, 1*87 to 2'5 ; tarsus, 0'89 to 0'95 ; bill from gape, 1-5 

 to 17 ; bill from front, T54 to 174 ; weight, T53 oz. to 2'48 oz. 



Bill blackish-brown at tip, paling towards base ; irides deep 

 brown ; legs and feet pale-greenish. 



Crown divided by a black band slightly edged with reddish- 

 brown, extending from the forehead to the nape ; beneath this 

 and parallel to it are two streaks of yellowish-white, separated 

 by another of black ; a dusky line between the gape and the eye ; 

 back and scapulars black, glossed with green, and with purple 

 reflections ; the scapulars with the outer webs creamy-yellow, 

 forming two conspicuous longitudinal bands extending from the 

 shoulder to the tail ; quills dusky ; wing-coverts black, edged with 

 pale brown and white ; throat white ; neck in front and upper 

 breast pale yellow-brown tinged with ashy, and with dark 

 longitudinal spots ; lower breast and belly pure white ; tail dusky, 

 edged with pale ferruginous. 



The Jack Snipe is generally distributed throughout the region 

 during the cold weather. It is, however, much less common than 

 either of the other two, arriving later, and departing earlier 



