Syrinx of the Scolopacidse. 



339 



(2) Common Snipe. — Turning now to the syrinx of the 

 Common Snipe, it will be noticed that it is similarly com- 

 posed of four fused rings, and that these, as in the Jack 

 Snipe, gradually increase in circumference to form a more 

 or less campanulate syringeal box ; but this campanula- 

 tion is very slight, and might escape notice, but for the 

 attention called to this region by the exaggerations of the 

 Jack Snipe. Although, it will be noticed (text-fig. 8, F.7\), 

 that the svrinx is formed of four fused rinas as in the Jack 



Text-fiff. 8. 



B. r. I. 



Syrinx of Common Snipe {Gallinago ccelestis), ventral aspect. 

 Letters as in text-fig. 6, p. 337. 



Snipe, the median cartilaginous area of the ventral aspect is 

 much less and is almost confined to the free ends of the last, or 

 hindmost, enlarged syringeal rings. The first bronchial ring, 

 as in the Jack Snipe, is entirely cartilaginous ; and there 

 is no trace of what I have called the intercalary semi-ring. 

 The intrinsic muscles have their normal insertion; and there 

 is a rudimentary semi-lunar membrane, as in the Woodcock. 



