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glossy as now, after a lapse of 36 years, they are still more glossy 

 than most snipes' eggs. " These eggs measure between 1-80" and 

 1-84" in length and 1-24" and 1-28" in breadth. They are ofthe 

 usual snipe and plover pig top character in shape, but the texture 

 seems harder and closer than in most snipes' eggs. 



This curious pink ground colour agrees well with Oates' descrip- 

 tion of the eggs of G. solitaria, a colour, which he says, renders the 

 eggs of that bird easily distinguishable from all other snipes' eggs. 



The ordinary full clutch consists, of course, of four eggs as with 

 all other true snipes. 



Seebohm gives the size as varying between 1*7" and 1*9" in 

 length and between 1-22" and 1*3'' in breadth, and Dresser gives 

 the average as 1*75" x 1*24" and in " Eggs of the Birds of Europe," 

 p. 688, gives the variation in length as between 1*73" and 1*83" 

 and in breadth as between 1-21" and 1*28". Jourdain gives the 

 measiirements as bigger than this and the average of 31 as being 

 1-79" x 1-33". 



Gallinago stenuea. 

 The Pintail Snipe. 



Scolopax stenura. — Kuhl. Seebohm, charadriidas, p. 477 ; id B. 

 Jap. Empire, p. 345. 



Scolopax horsfieldii. — Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 2 • id et Hardw. Ind. 

 Zool., ii, Pt. 54. 



Gallinago horsfieldi. — Hume. Str. F., iii, p. 182. 



Gallinago stenura.— Jerd. B. of In., iii, p. 674 ; God. Ans. J. A. 

 S. Beng., xxxix, p. 273 ; Blanford, ibid, xlx, p. 270; Marshal, 

 Str. F., i, p. 428 ; Hume, ibid, p. 423 ; Hume, ibid, ii, p. 294 ; 

 Parker, ibid, p. 335; Ball, ibid,' V . 431; Blyth and Wald. B. of 

 Burmah, p. 156 ; Armstrong, Str. F., iv, p. 340 ; Hume, ibid, v, p. 

 46 ; Butler, ibid, p. 212 ; Legge, B. of Cey., p. 816 ; Oates, B. B. B., 

 ii, p. 383 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M., xxiv, p. 619; Blan. Avi. of B. I., 

 iv, p. 289 ; Finn, In. Waders, p. 148; Sharp, Hand List, B. M., i, 

 p. 165 ; Oates' Indian Game Birds, ii, p. 469 ; id. Cat. Eggs B. M., 

 ii, p. 356; Stuart Baker, J. B., N. H. S., xii, p. 500 ; Butler, ibid, 

 xiii, p. 149; Wall, ibid, xv, p. 722. 



Gallinago sthemira.—he Mess., Str. F., iii, p. 380 ; Hume and 



