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being largely centred with dark brown; from the base of the bill to the eye an 

 unspotted bald albescent stripe, which passes over the eye and loses itself above the 

 ear-coverts. Under plumage white, the sides of the breast clothed by cinereous feathers 

 with small brown centres. My Lake-Baikal example also has the sides of the breast 

 similarly marked, only that the rufous is mixed with the cinereous. The middle toe. 

 including the nail, nearly measures a full inch. 



Pallas altered his first title, rujicollis (which Gmelin and Latham adopted), to salina. 



SCOLOPACIN^. 



Gallinago, Leach. 



187. Gallinago scolopacina. 



Scolopax gallinago, Linn. S. N. i. p. 2-14, no. 7 (1766). 

 Gallinago scolopacina, Bonap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 379 (1856). 



Ilab. Luzon ; feet yellowish ; nails grey {Meyer). 



Two examples of this species of Snipe ( 6 fide Meyer) were procured by Dr. A. B. 

 Meyer on the 7th of February at Laguna de Bai. 



188. Gallinago megala. 



Gallinago megala, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 343, no. 118, " Amoy." 



Scolopax {Spilura) stenura, Temm., apud Radde, Reisen im Siiden von Ost-Sibir. ii. p. 334, no. 208, 



pi. xiii. f. 1,2,3 (1863). 

 Scolopax heterura, Cab. J. f. O. 1866, p. 28, no. 163, " Luzon " [minime Hodgson), descr. nulla. 

 Gallinago heterocerca, Cab. op. cit. 1870, p. 235, descr. princeps ; id. op. cit. 1872, p. 317. 

 Scolopax heterocerca (Cab.), Taczanowski, J. f. O. 1870, p. 311, no. 17. 

 "Gallinago megala, Swinboe," O. Finsch, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1872, p. 267 (sub G. stenura). 



Ilab. Luzon {Jagor). 



Rhynch^a, Cuvier. 



189. EHYNCK.EA CAPENSIS. 



Gallinago capitis bonce spei, Brisson, Orn. vi. suppl. p. 141. 



Scolopax cfipensis, Linn. S. N. i. p. 246, no. 14 (1766), ex Brisson; O. Fiiiscli k Hartl. Viig. 



Ost-Afi-ikas, p. 774. 

 Rhynchaa variegata, Vieill., Scblegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, j). 16. 

 Rhynchaa, sp.? v. Martens, J. f. O. 1866, p. 28, no. 162. 



Hah. Philippines (Cuminff). 



Several examples obtained by Cuming in the Philippines are contained in the Leyden 

 Museum. 



