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pinkish-buff colour, and this is thickly speckled, spotted, and blotched 

 with rich reddish brown and underlying pale grey. In one 

 example, the markings are all minute and they are chiefly dis- 

 tributed round the lower part of the broad end, forming a wide 

 zone. In a second specimen, they consist of both spots and blotches 

 very thickly planted over the broader half of the egg. In a third, 

 the larger half is nearly covered with -a confluent mass of blotches. 

 In all three specimens the smaller half of the egg is but sparingly 

 marked. They measure respectively : 1*6 by 1*15 ; 1*5 by 1'07 ; 

 1-54 by 1-12. 



Chatham Islands. Dr. H. 0. Forbes [P.]. 



Genus LIMNOCRYPTES, Kaup. 



Limnocryptes gallinula (Linn.}. 



Scolopax gallinula, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ix. fig. l,a-c (1845- 



54) ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 355, pi. xcix. (1856) ; 



Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 247, pi. 28 (1885) ; id. Geogr. Distr. 



Charadriidcc, p. 480 (1887) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 154, pi. 41. 



fig. 6 (1896). 



Telmatias gallinula, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 53. fig. 4 (1855-63). 

 Gallinago gallinula, Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 653 (1877); Hume & 



Marsh. Game Birds Ind. iii. p. 373 (1880); Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 828 



(1880) ; Poynting, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 119, pi. 26 (1895-6). 

 Limnocryptes gallinula, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 665 (1896j ; 



id. 'Hand-l. i. p. 166 (1899); Oates, Game Birds Ind. ii. p. 477 



(1899). 



The eggs of the Jack Snipe resemble those of the Common Snipe 

 so closely that it is impossible to give any character by which they 

 may with certainty be distinguished from them. They are, however^ 

 slightly smaller, measuring from 1-45 to 1'65 in length, and from 

 1-05 to 1-13 in breadth. 



1. Muonioniska, Lapland (J. Wolley). Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



1. Muonioniska, 29~h July (J. W.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Muonioniska, 31st July (J. W.). Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



2. Muonioniska, 24th June (Meves: Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.} 



2. Muonioniska, 26th July (Meves : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.}. 



1. Muouioniska, 4th July (J. Wolley). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Muonioniska, 29th July (J. W.). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Muonioniska, 2nd Aug. (J. W.}. Seebohm Coll. 



3. Muonioniska, 6th July (Knoblock}. Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Sivka, Finland (A. Newton}. Seebohm Coll. 



Genus SCOLOPAX, Linn. 

 Scolopax rusticula, Linn. 



Scolopax rusticola, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ix. fig. 6, a-d (1845- 

 54) ; Heioitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 348, pi. xcvi. (1856) ; 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. vii. p. 615 (1877) ; Hume $ Marsh. Game Birds 



