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trace of the pink tinge mentioned hy Oates and shewn in the plate 

 (III No. 9) in the second Volume of the Catalogue of Bird" s Eggs 

 in the British Museum. All, however, have the same curious 

 twisted character in the markings. 



The Plate of the Solitary Snipe is decidedly good. Many birds 

 are considerably paler in general tone than the bird depicted 

 which, indeed, must have been darker than the average, though I 

 have seen specimens even darker than this. The staring white 

 rim round the eye is not correct and the colours of the soft parts are 

 not normal. I doubt if airy bird ever possessed quite such vivid 

 green legs as these and the greater number have them more a 

 dull yellow-green with a distinctly livid tinge. 



The bill is correctly coloured, but that the terminal third should 

 be darker. It must, however, be remembered that though the 

 brown tinge given here is correct for some birds, in many the bill 

 will be found to be coloured a livid green at the base, more espe- 

 cially about the gape. 



GALLINAGO NEMORICOLA. 



The Wood Snipe. 



Scolopax gallinago. — Hodg., Gleanings in Science, iii, p. 240. 



Gallinago nemoricola.—Hodg., J. A. S. Bengal, vi, p. 490 ; Blyth, 

 Cat., p. 272 ; Jerdon, B. of India, iii, p. 672 ; Hume and Davidson, 

 Str. F., vi, p. 459 ; Hume Cat. No. 868 ; Hume Str. F., viii, p. 112 ; 

 Legge, B. of Ceylon, p. 814 ; Hume and Marshall, Game Birds of 

 India, iii, p. 325; Butler Str. F., ix, p. 428; Reid, Str. F., x, 

 p. 68 ; Ditmas, ibid, p. 173 ; Oates, B. of B. ii, p. 385; Barnes, B. 

 of Bombay, p. 344 ; Davison, Str. F., x, p. 413 ; Hume, ibid xi, p. 

 318 ; Oates, Hume's Nests and Eggs Ind. B., iii, p. 350 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. M., xxiv, p. 657 ; Oates, Cat. Eggs B. M, ii, p. 64 ; Sharpe, 

 Hand List of B. of B. M., i, p. 166 ; Blanford, Aviffauna of B. I., iv, 

 p. 285 ; Oates, Game B. of In., i, p. 439 ; Finn, Indian Waders, 

 p. 141. 



Scolopax nemoricola. — Jerd., 111., Ind. Orni., pi. ix ; Nevill, J. A. 

 S. B. (Ceylon), 1867-70, p. 138 ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Churadri- 

 idge, p. 474. 



