SCOLOPAX. 



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Strickland's Snipe is only known from Chili and Patagonia. It lias been found as far 

 south as Cape Horn ; in Valdivia, in south lat. 40° ; and Mr. Berkeley James observed it in 

 the market at Valparaiso, which is the most northerly limit of its known range. 



Strickland's Snipe is very rare in collections. The type is in the British Museum, and 

 other examples are in the collection of Salvin and Godman, in my own collection, and in the 

 Lynn Museum. On the continent it may be seen in the museums at Bremen and Leyden. 



In its habits it is a Woodcock and not a Snipe. It is described as frequenting damp 

 thick forests or moist bushy lands, and as never seen on open marshy ground. Its egg is 

 also like that of a Woodcock, having a pale stone-coloured ground, \ery different from the 

 olive-brown ground-colour of the eggs of the Snipes. 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



Examples 

 Very rare. 



SCOLOPAX JAMESONI. 



JAMESON'S SNIPE. 



ScoLOPAX tibiis fere omnino vestitis : rectricura quatuordccim lateralibus attenuatis (circ. 5 millitn.), Diagnosis. 

 omnibus fasciatis : primariffi prima; pogonio externo hand fasciato : pectore et abdomine 

 albesceutis vald^ brunneo fasciatis. 



No local races of this species are known. 



Variations. 



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