SCOLOPAX SATURATA. 



Ord. V"?^ Les Eceassiers, Cuvier. 4T Famille, Les Longirostres. 



Ord. XIII'"-^ Grallatores, Temminck. 



Ord. IV. Grall^, Linn. Syst. 



Ord. VI. Grallatores, lUiger. Fam. 32, Limicolje. 



SCOLOPAX, Linn. Briss. Lath. Cuv. Teinm. Illiger, he. 



Char. Gen. — Rostrum elongatum, gracile, molliusculum, teretiusculum, rectum, 

 apicibus mandibularum obtusis, mortuis rugoloso-scabris, sulco medio exaratis, 

 maxillEe apice prominulo, incrassato. Mandibulee sulco, tomia legente, culmen 

 distinguente, versus apicem evanescente exarat^e. Nares basales membrana 

 tecte, apertura lineari, longitudinali antrorsum patentes. Lingua mediocris, 

 angusta, acuta. Fades attenuata, plumata. Alee tuberculatae. Pedes grallarii, 

 mediocres, congrui, tetradactyli, fissi. Hallux phalangem digiti antici asquans, 

 tenuis, apice insistens. Ungues falcvilares. Tarsus digito medio brevier. 

 Acropodia scutulata. (Illiger.) 



Scolopax saturato-fusco castaneoque varia, supra fasciis alternis inaequalibus, collo 

 antice pectoreque aequalibus, abdomine et crisso dilutioribus, occipite obscuris. 



Tekken, of the Javanese. 



Scolopax saturata, Horsf. Syst. Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn. Trans. 

 Vol. ^lll. p. \^1. 



The Scolopax saturata belongs to the first section which M. Temminck has 

 established in this genus. It agrees with the European and American Woodcocks, 

 not only in its manners and place of abode, but also in certain external marks, which 

 readily distinguish the birds of this section from the other species of Scolopax. 

 These exhibit themselves in the tibi£e being covered with plumes to the knees, in a 

 bill proportionally of great length, in a white extremity to the tail-feathers under- 

 neath, and in three or four transverse bands on the posterior part of the head and 



