SCOLOPAX. 



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The Japanese Solitary Snipe breeds in Northern Japan, and probably in South-eastern Geographi- 

 Siberia as far east as Lake Baikal. It winters in China, though a few remain all the year tion. 

 round in Yezzo. It has hitherto been generally confounded with the preceding species, 

 the synonymy of the two forms being still more confused. The Scolopax hyemalis of 

 Eversmann (Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1845, p. 257, pi. vi.), from the Altai Mountains, is 

 unquestionably the Himalayan bird. The Gallinago japonica of Bonaparte (Compt. Rend. 

 1856, p. 715) is apparently a nomen nudum without description of any kind, and may be 

 any of the half-dozen Snipes of Japan ; it therefore must be allowed to drop altogether 

 out of the synonymy, leaving the coast perfectly clear for the adoption of Swinhoe's 

 GalUnago japonica (Ibis, 1873, p. 364), of which the type is now in ray collection. 



SCOLOPAX STENURA. 



PINTAIL SNIPK 



ScoLOPAX rectricihus viginti-sex, quarum sedecim aiigiistissimse sunt (2 ad 4 millim.). 



Diagnosis. 



No local races of this species are known, though of course it varies with age and season. Vari 



ariations. 



