JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



Jany. 19.11. Vol. XX. No. 3. 



THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, 

 BURMA AND CEYLON. 



BY 



E. 0. Stuart Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Part III. 



(With Plates A, B & G and Maps A & B.) 



(Continued from page 278 of this Volume.) 



Family— CHAR ADRLlD.^. 



Genus— GALLIN AGO. 



GALLINAGO COELESTIS. 



The Common or Fantail Snipe. 



Scolopax gallinago. — Linn., Sys. Nat., i., p. 244 ; Seebohm, Geogr. 

 Distr. Charadr., p. 484; id, B. Jap. Em., p. 346. 



Scolopax sabinii. — Vigors. Trans. Linn. Soc, xiv, p. 557. Irish 

 Naturalist, Jan. 95, Barrett-Hamilton. 



Gallinago scolopacina. — Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc, p. 272;. 

 Jerdon, B. of I., iii, p. 674; Godwin Austin, J. A. S. Bengal, 

 xxxix, p. 273 ; McMaster, ibid, xl., p. 215 ; Blanford, ibid, p. 276;. 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, Indian Birds, p. 586 ; id, Str. F. I., p. 235 ; 

 Adam, ibid, p. 395 ; Hume, ibid, ii, p. 295 ; Parker, ibid, p. 335 ; 

 Hume, ibid, iii, p. 182; Blyth, B. of Burm., p. 156; Blanford, 

 East Pers., ii, p. 282 ; Butler and Hume, Str. F., iv, p. 15 ; Scully, 



