758 ROSTRA TULAGALLINA GO 



Ohari, Nepal. ; Tibud, Panlawa, Mahr. ; Tama-shigi, Jap. 



ad. (India). Crown and nape olivaceous brown ; a broad median 

 stripe, a narrow ring round, and a stripe behind the eye buff ; hind neck 

 and fore back ashy brown narrowly dark barred ; upper parts black varied 

 with rufous grey and yellow and washed with olivaceous ; a broad 

 buff stripe on each side of the back ; wing- coverts and quills with ovate 

 yellowish and rusty spots ; upper tail-coverts and tail blue-grey with 

 yellowish ovate spots and bars ; chin nearly white ; throat and upper 

 breast ashy brown with dull white stripes, bordered below with blackish ; 

 sides of breast olive-brown and black ; rest of under parts white ; bill, legs, 

 and iris olive-brown. Culmen 2*1, wing 5'0, tail 1*7, tarsus 1*7 inch. 

 Female larger, much richer coloured ; sides of head rufous becoming 

 chestnut-red on the throat down to the black band across the breast ; 

 mantle dark lead-grey with narrow black bars ; a tuft of white lanceolate 

 feathers under the scapulars in all ages. Young birds resemble the male 

 adult. 



Hob. Africa south of the Sahara, but ranging in the east to 

 the Nile Delta ; Madagascar ; Asia Minor (?) ; Afghanistan, 

 Kashmir, and the Indian Peninsulas, east to Japan and China, 

 south in winter to Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philippines. 



Frequents moist or grassy localities often where there are 

 bushes, is Rail-like in its general habits and flight, and hard 

 to flush, affording poor sport. It feeds on insects and mollusca, 

 and also to some extent on grain and grass seeds. The note 

 of the female is a guttural croak, that of the male shriller. 

 It is said to breed twice in the year, and in India its nest has 

 been found at all seasons. The nest is a mere hollow in the 

 ground, often with a pad of grass or rushes, and the eggs, 4 

 in number, which are very small for the size of the bird, only 

 measuring about 1'40 by 0*99, are clear yellowish buff, boldly 

 blotched with rich brownish black, here and there becoming 

 rich raw sienna-brown. 



GALLINAGO, Leach, 1816. 



1052. DOUBLE SNIPE. 

 GALLINAGO MAJOR. 



Gallinago major (GmeL), Syst. Nat. i. p. 661 (1788) ; (Naum.), viii. 

 p. 291, Taf. 208 ; (Hewitson), ii. p. 351, pi. xcvii. ; (Gould), B. of E 

 iv. pi. 320 ; id. B. of Gt Brit. iv. pi. 78 ; Dresser, vii. p. 631 

 pi. 541 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 626 ; Saunders, p. 571 

 Lilford, v. p. 59, pi. 25 ; Poynting, p. 109, pi. 24. 



Grande Bdcassine, French ; Narseja grande, Portug. ; Aga- 

 chadiza-real, Span. ; Croccolone, Ital. ; Grosse Sumpfschnepfe, 





