B24 On some rare Palearctic Birds’ Eggs. 
(2) Gazurinaco sotitarta. (Plate VI. figs. 1, 2.) 
Gallinago solitaria Dresser, Man. Palearct. B. p. 763. 
I am glad to be able to figure the eggs of this Snipe, for, 
like those of the preceding species, they have not hitherto been 
known, although Blanford has stated (Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 
iv. p. 291) that the Solitary Snipe “is undoubtedly found in 
the Himalayas, and at elevations of from 9000 to 15,000 feet 
in the breeding-season,” but that “the nest and eggs have 
not been described.”’ According to Taczanowski, this Snipe 
inhabits the mountains of Northern Tibet, Mongolia, and 
Siberia north to Kamtschatka, where it is said to be resident. 
When I was in St. Petersburg in 1904 Dr. Goebel shewed 
me a small collection of eggs received by him from near 
Minusinsk, on the Upper Yenesei, near the borders of 
Mongolia, which he assured me had been most carefully 
collected aud identified. When I noticed that it contained 
the eggs of several species which I had not previously seen 
(amongst which were two of the present species), I arranged 
to take over the whole collection. Unfortunately the 
collector sent no particulars of the position of the nest or any 
description of it. The two eggs were taken on the 25th of 
June, and are larger than those cf any Snipe in my 
collection, measuring 0-74 by 1:29 and 1°78 by 1°30 inch 
respectively. 
(3) GaLiinacGo Rapp. (Plate VI. fig. 3.) 
Mr. Buturlin has recently described a Snipe, closely allied 
to and indeed a geographical form of Gullinayo ce@lestis, but 
quite distinguishable from that species. In 1905, when col- 
lecting at the mouth of the Kolyma River in North-eastern 
Siberia, he found this Snipe breeding, and sent me four 
clutches of its eggs, each containing four specimens. In 
two of these clutches the eggs resemble those of Gallinago 
cwlestis, but are,asa rule, more boldly marked than in that 
species. The eggs in the other two clutches have the ground- 
colour more greerish grey in tone, and the example figured 
is one of these. In size they vary from 1°57 by 1:05 to 
1°66 by 1:09 inch; thus they seem rather larger than eggs 
of Gallinago celestis. 
