Lonepreak. GRALLATORES. MACRORAMPHUS. 105 
and eyes is a dark streak. The eye-streak and chin 
white, tinged with reddish-brown. Nape and_ back 
part of the neck blackish-brown, margined with yellow- 
ish-brown. Upper part of the back and scapulars black, 
beautifully margined, and varied with pale reddish- 
brown and white. The tertials black, with oblique nar- 
row transverse bars of pale brownish-red. Lower part 
of the back, rump, and tail white, barred transversely 
with black. Fore part of the neck, breast, flanks, 
and thighs pale orange-brown, spotted with black. 
Belly and abdomen reddish-white. Vent and under 
tail-coverts white, tinged with reddish-brown, and bar- 
red with black. Legs and toes greenish-grey. Bill 
having the point black, and the base wrinkled, and of a 
deep greenish-grey colour. 
In the winter the plumage of this bird is nearly as fol- Winter 
lows :—The eye-streak, cheeks, and chin white. Between Bema 
the bill and eye*is a dusky streak. Crown of the head, 
neck, and upper part of the breast, deep-grey, tinged 
with brown. Upper part of the back and scapulars 
clove-brown, the feathers being margined with ash- 
grey and reddish-brown. Wing-coverts hair-brown, 
with paler margins. The greater coverts, as well as 
the secondary quills, margined and tipped with white. 
Lower part of the breast and belly white. Under tail- 
coverts and vent white, barred with deep hair-brown. 
Rump and tail as in the summer plumage. Quills deep 
hair-brown, the shaft of the first quill being white. 
Genus SCOLOPAX, Zinn. 
GENERIC CHARACTERS. 
Bill long, slender, straight ; the tip obtuse, rounded, and 
ending with an internal knob ; both mandibles, in dead 
birds, rugose behind the tip; under mandible shorter than 
