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south to all the hill ranges of the pen- 

 insula and even to Ceylon, and on mi- 

 gration it is met with on the plains. Its 

 western limit is altogether unknown ; but 

 I conjecture that it will prove to be 

 roughly a line drawn from Dalhousie to 

 Baroda. 



This Snipe is probably commoner in the 

 eastern portion of the Empire than in 

 the Indian peninsula itself. It has been 

 obtained in the Dibrugarh district of 

 Assam, in the Garo and Khasi hills, and 

 in Manipur. Both Mr. A. E. English 

 and Captain J. Donovan procured 

 numerous specimens at Maymyo, to the 

 east of Mandalay. Major G. Rippon 

 informs me that this species has been 

 shot at Toungyi and at Bampone in the 

 Southern Shan States, and Lieut. J. H. 

 Whitehead writes to me that he has shot 

 it at Kengtung. The late Mr. W. 

 Davison observed this Snipe at the ex- 

 treme southern end of Tenasserim. 



The Wood-Snipe leaves the Himalayas, 

 on migration south, about the end of 

 October ; but from the fact that this Snipe 

 has been observed in the Khasi hills and 

 in Manipur in September, it is extremely 

 probable that it may be / a constant resi- 

 dent in some of the numerous hill-ranges 



