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among them Sharpe (14), do not admit it as a good species. In the usual 

 order of things it should be this supposed eastern form which descends to Japan, 

 China, Formosa, Hainan, the Philippines, but Java and South-central Celebes are 

 equally likely to be reached by specimens descending the Malay Peninsula from 

 the north-west, as seems to be the case with Lanius tigrinus and perhaps 

 Butastwr liventer. Mr. Dresser himself, however, believed Everett's specimen 

 from Bohol, Philippines (4), to be L. platyrhyncha. 



The Broad-billed Sandpiper was found breeding in Lapland by WoUey 

 and on the Dovrefjeld in Norway by Mitchell and others; the eggs are not 

 yet known from Eastern Asia. In autumn it migrates south, but in the East 

 the greater number seem to stop before reaching the Archipelago, and the 

 specimens which have been obtained there are so few in number that they 

 almost seem to come under the head of stragglers. 



GENUS GALLINAGO Leach. 



In the Snipes the eye is situated far back, almost as it were in the side 

 of the occijjut; the bill is straight, about twice the length of the head, termi- 

 nally soft and nervous, the upper mandible overlapping the lower and notched 

 behind the tip to allow for the latter fitting to it, the nasal groove reaching 

 well into the terminal third. Middle toe and claw longer than the tarsus, which 

 is transversely scutellated. Rectrices 12 to 26 in number, the lateral ones 

 greatly attenuated when the number is large. Wing moderate, the inner se- 

 condaries nearly as long as the primaries, the middle ones about half their 

 length. The Snipes are migratory, and almost cosmopolitan in their distribution. 



^ 337. GALLINAGO MEGALA Swinh. 



East Siberian Snipe. 



Gallinago megala (1) Swinh., Ibis 1861, 343; (2) id., Ibis 1863, 415; (3) Schl, Mus. P.-B.^ 

 Scolopaces, 1864, 12; ^4;Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1872, VIH, 98; (5) Salvad., Cat. Ucc 

 Borneo 1874, 334; (6) Wald., Tr. Z. S. 1875, IX, 235; (7) Tweedd., P. Z. 8 

 1877, 768; (8) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 477; (9) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878 

 345, 953; (9"*') Prjev., Eowl. Orn. Misc. 1878, DI, 92; (10) Meyer, Ibis 1879 

 143; (11) Legge, B. Ceylon 1S80, 817; (12) Salvad., Orn. Pap. 1882, EI, 337: 

 (13) Everett, J. Str. Br. E. A. S. 1889, 206; (14) Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 60 

 (15) Sharpe, t. c. 145; (16) Steere, List Coll. B. & M. Philippines 1890, 26 

 (17) Styan, Ibis 1891, 330, 505; (18) Wiglesworth, Av. Polyn. 1892, 67; (19) 

 De La Touche, Ibis 1892, 492; (20) Biitt., Zool. Erg. Weber's Eeise 1893, JH, 283 

 (21) Tacz., Faun. Orn. Sib. Orient. 1893, H, 956; (22) Bns. & Worces., B 

 Menage Exped. 1894, 31; f25; Grant, Ibis 1894, 522; (24) Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 

 180; (25) Sharpe, Cat. B. 1896, XXIV, 624, 769. 



a. Scolopax (SpUura) steaura (I) Eadde (nee Kuhl), Eeis. S. 0. Sibir. 1863, 334, pi. Xm. 



b. GaUinago heterocerca (1) Cab., J. f. 0. 1870, 235; (2) Tacz., ib. 1873, 104, t. H, f. 31 (egg). 



