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being largely centred with dark brown; from the base of the bill to the eye an 
unspotted bald albescent stripe, which passes over the eye and loses itself above the 
ear-coverts. Under plumage white, the sides of the breast clothed by cinereous feathers 
with small brown centres. My Lake-Baikal example also has the sides of the breast 
similarly marked, only that the rufous is mixed with the cinereous. The middle toe. 
including the nail, nearly measures a full inch. 
Pallas altered his first title, rwficollis (which Gmelin and Latham adopted), to salina. 
SCOLOPACIN &. 
GALLInaGo, Leach. 
187. GALLINAGO SCOLOPACINA. 
Scolopax gallinago, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 244, no. 7 (1766). 
Gallinago scolopacina, Bonap. Compt. Rend. xliti. p. 579 (1856). 
Hab. Luzon ; feet yellowish ; nails grey (J/eyer). 
Two examples of this species of Snipe (¢ fide Meyer) were procured by Dr. A. B. 
Meyer on the 7th of February at Laguna de Bai. 
188. GALLINAGO MEGALA. 
Gallinago megala, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 343, no. 118, “ Amoy.”’ 
Scolopax (Spilura) stenura, Temm., apud Radde, Reisen im Siiden von Ost-Sibir. ii. p. 334, no. 208, 
pl. xiii. f. 1, 2, 3 (1863). 
Scolopar heterura, Cab. J. f. O. 1866, p. 28, no. 163, “ Luzon” (minime Hodgson), deser. nulla. 
Gallinago heterocerca, Cab. op. cit. 1870, p. 235, descr. princeps ; id. op. cit. 1872, p. 317. 
Scolopax heterocerca (Cab.), Taczanowski, J. f. O. 1870, p. 311, no. 17. 
“ Gallinago megala, Swinhoe,” O. Finsch, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1872, p. 267 (sub G. sfenura). 
Hab. Luzon (Jagor). 
Rayne, Cuvier. 
189. RayNcH#A CAPENSIS. 
Gallinago capitis bone spei, Brisson, Orn. vi. suppl. p. 141. 
Scolopax capensis, Linn. 8. N. i. p. 246, no. 14 (1766), ex Brisson; O. Pinsch & Hartl. Vog. 
Ost-Afrikas, p. 774. 
Rhynchea variegata, Vieill., Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 16. 
Rhynchea, sp.? v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 28, no. 162. 
Hab. Philippines (Cuming). : 
Several examples obtained by Cuming in the Philippines are contained in the Leyden 
Museum. 
