SCOLOPAX. 

 Gallinago paraguayse (VieiUot), apud auctores omnes. 



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Plates. — Unfigured. 



Habits. — Bridges, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 118. 



Eggs.— Described (Yarrell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1847, p. Si), from examples seat from Chili by 

 Bridges, as measuring If by 1^ inch. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



The Chilian form of Azara's Snipe, or the Chilian Snipe, appears to be confined to the Geographi- 

 Pacific slopes of Bolivia and Chili. I have been unable to find any evidence of its tron^^^^"^*^' 

 occurrence east of the Andes ; consequently the name of ^5'. paraguayce, by vi^hich it is 

 generally known, must be abandoned as sure to be always misleading, and as originally 

 applied to a nearly allied local race which breeds in the Falkland Islands and winters in 

 Paraguay. Under these circumstances I have been obhged most reluctantly to give it a 

 new name, Scolopax cJdlensis, or, if we adopt a trinomial nomenclature, S. frenata 

 cJtilensis. 



It differs from the Brazilian Snipe only in dimensions. In both forms the length of Subspeciflo 



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the bill from the frontal feathers varies from 24 to 2'i) inch, but whilst in the Brazilian 

 Snipe the length of the wing from the carpal joint varies from 4|^ to 5 inches, that of 

 the Chilian Snipe varies from 5J to 5f inches. In none of these dimensions does it 

 differ materially from the Falkland-Island Snipe, which has all the appearance of being 

 a desert form of its ChiHan ally. In the ChiUan Snipe the pale parts are very white 

 and the dark parts very dark, a rich velvety dark brown. It varies in the comparative 

 length of the primaries and secondaries, intergrading with the Falkland-Island race on 

 the one hand, and with the Brazilian form on the other. 



Examples from Chili are common in collections, and Messrs. Salvin and Godman have 

 one from Bolivia. 



SCOLOPAX FRENATA ANDINA. 



PEBTJVIAN SNIPE. 



Scolopax frenata rostro breviore. 



Diagnosis. 



The Peruvian Snipe is only a small race of the Brazilian Snipe, with which it intergrades. Variations. 



Gallinago andina, Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 561. 

 Scolopax frenata andina [Tacz.), Seebuhm, Ibis, 1886, p. 138. 



Synonymy. 



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