1907.] 



"bleating" of the snipe. 



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consequently larger and the bleat deeper in tone ; otherwise they 

 agi-ee in number and structure. A description of the breeding- 



Text-fig. 8. 







A. Half of tail of GalUnago major from witliont inwards left to right. 



B. Half of tail of G. nobilis fi-om without inwards left to right. 



C. Half of tail of G. stenura. 



habits of this species is to be found in a paper by Durnford in the 

 'Ibis,' 1877, p. 198:— "During the spring they go through the 



