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The difference also in tone and depth of colouring between the 

 heads of G. solitaria and G. nemoricola does not strike one so forci- 

 bly in the plate as it does in real life, parti}' doubtless due to the 

 fact that solitaria is more grey and less rufescent than nemoricola, 

 a point which we can hardly expect to see emphasized in a black 

 and white plate. 



Turning to Plate B, the same remarks as to tone and depth of 

 colouration apply to the wings of solitaria and nemoricola as to the 

 heads in Plate A. 



It is necessary also to point out that the wing of G. cailestis is 

 that of a rather darkly, heavily barred bird. The median wing 

 coverts are generally pure white in this species and do not show the 

 heavy markings at the bases which we see in these drawings. The 

 axillaries also (these are the four long feathers at the base of the 

 drawings) vary, as I have explained above, from pure white in 

 typical G. c. radclie to others which are even more heavily barred 

 than those in the plate. 



As regards Plate C, all I need remark is that we must 

 remember when examining it that some of the colouration 

 which appears in this to be white is really a faint rufous. 

 Even allowing for this, however, both the Fantail and Pintail 

 more often than not have tails a good deal less marked with 

 white than those shewn here as examples of those birds. 



Gallinago ccelestis raddei (Buturlin). 



Madde's Snipe. 



Scolopax gallinago raddei. — Buturlin " Waders of the Russian 

 Empire," Part I, p. 56 (1902). 



Description. — " Differs from the western form of the Common 

 Snipe in having the pale longitudinal stripes over the upper parts 

 of the body conspicuously broader 2 to 4 mm. wide, the median 

 pale stripe on the crown wider, the dark parts of the feathers of the 

 mantle more freckled with rufous, the chest less spotted with brown, 

 the wing lining and axillaries less conspicuously barred with greyish 

 brown, the axillaries being often quite white." 



The above description was obtained for me by Mr. H. E. Dresser,' 

 and is translated from the original Russian of Buturlin. 



