428 A TENTATIVE CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF 



867.— Scolopax rusticula, Lin. The Woodcock. 



Cold weather visitant. Rare. Has been procured in the 

 jungles about Belgaum by Mr. Laird, near Thana by Mr. Cairns, 

 and in Kanara by Colonel Peyton, and will probably be found 

 to occur as a straggler all along the Sahyadri range. 



868.— Gallinago nemoricola, Uodgs. The Wood- 

 Snipe. 



Cold weather visitant. I have entered this species on the 

 authority of Mr. Richardson, a well-known sportsmen in Bel- 

 • gaum, who told me that he had shot a solitary Snipe some years 

 ago on some swampy ground near Tunis, about 15 miles south 

 of Hubli and some 30 miles south of Dharwar, and another one, 

 a few years later, on the borders of the Mysore country. I have 

 also been told that it has been killed in Kanara by Colonel 

 Peyton. Certainly from the description given to me of the 

 bird killed at Tunis I should say unhesitatingly that it was a 

 solitary Snipe, and as the present species is recorded from the 

 Nilgiris by Jerdon and Mr. Davison, probably it was nemoricola. 

 Burgess also records a specimen from Nasik. 



870.— Gallinago sthenura, Kuhl. The Pin-tail Snipe. 



Cold weather visitant. Very common in Ratnagiri, about 

 Thana, in the Belgaum district aud in all of the woodland 

 tracts adjoining, and common, according to Messrs. Wenden 

 and Davidson, in the Deccan ; but it is not included in 

 Mr. Fairbank's list of birds collected in the viciuity of Khaudala, 

 Nagar, &c, and at that time he possibly did not distinguish this 

 species from the next. 



871.— Gallinago coelestis, Frenzel. The Common or 

 Full Snipe. 



Cold weather visitant. Common throughout the region, 

 especially in Ratnagiri and about Belgaum, Dharwar, &c. 



872.— Gallinago gallinula, Lin. The Jack Snipe. 



Cold weather visitant. Less common than the two last species, 

 but generally distributed throughout the region. 



873.— Rhynchsea capensis, Lin. The Painted Snipe. 



Permanent resident. Occurs throughout the region, but is 

 somewhat local in its distribution. In many districts it is com- 

 mon, and in others scarce. 



