AND IN PARTS OF WYNAAD AND SOUTHERN MYSORE. 413 
855.—Lobivanellus indicus, Bodd. The Red-wattled 
Lapwing. 
I found it not uneommon in the Wynaad and Mysore. It 
occasionally also ascends the hills, for I have shot it within 
five or six miles of Ootacamund, but it does not, I think, breed 
on the hills, for I have only met with it during the cold weather. 
[856.—Lobipluvia malabarica, Bodd. The Yellow- 
wattled Lapwing. 
I have seen this from 8. W. Mysore.—A. O. H.] 
859.—(idicnemus scolopax, S. G. Gm. ‘The Stone 
Plover. 
IT have met. with this species at the foot of the Nilghiris at 
Seegore. I also came across it at Bandipur, where 1 obtained 
both adult and young birds. On all occasions I have found 
it in thin tree jungle with hardly any undergrowth. 
867.—Scolopax rusticula, Zin. The Woodcock. 
On the Nilghiris Woodcock are not uncommon from about 
October to the end of February ; they frequent the sholas, and 
Woodcock shooting is a favourite amusement on the hills. 
868.—Gallinago nemoricola, Hodgs. The Wood- 
Snipe. 
A cold weather visitant to the Nilghiris, and I have heard of 
its being killedin the Wynaad. It doubtless also occurs on the 
Bramagherries. On the Nilghiris it was never common, and it 
seems to be getting still more rare, year by year, and theweh 
when on the Nilghiris last 1 had offered all the native shikaris 
a large price for any specimens they could procure me, I failed 
to cet any. It frequents much the same sort of places as the 
Woodcock does, but I have flushed it from among some bushes 
growing on the edge of a marsh. 
870.—Gallinago sthenura, uhi. The  Pintail 
Snipe. 
Also only a cold weather visitant, but coming in earlier and 
leaving later than either the Jack or Wood Snipe, It arrives on 
the Nilghiris early in September usually, but I have known 
it to come in as early as the last week in August, and I have 
killed it as late as the 5th of May in the Wynaad. 
[871.—Gallinago ccelestis, Frenzi. The Snipe. 
This occurs throughout the region treated of, alike in hills 
and plains; but it may be much rarer, as some say, on the 
former.—A. QO. H.] 
