498 seOLOPAX. 



Literature. Plates. — Unfigured. 



Habits. — Taczaiiowsl<i, Orn. Perou, iii. p. 375. 

 Eggs. — Unknown. 



Sxibspecific The Peruvian form of Azara's Snipe is a miniature of the Brazilian form, which it 



c arac ers. pesgfn][3igs \^ colour. The average dimensions of the two races are as follows : — 



S.frenaia. S. andina. 



inch. inch. 



Bill 2-9 to 2-4 2-1 to 2-0 



Wing 4-9 to 4-5 4 6 to 4-5 



Tarsus 1-3 to 1-2 M to I'O 



Geographi- It is only known from the Peruvian Andes, where it was first obtained by Whitely 



tTon. ° ' (Sclater & Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 151), about 10,000 feet above the level of the 

 sea, near Cuzco ; and afterwards by Jelski, who obtained the type described by Taczanowski 

 near Lake Junin, about 300 miles to the north-west in the same chain. More recently it 

 has been found by Stolzmann (Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 213) about 

 9000 feet above the level of the sea at Cutervo, about 400 miles further still to the 

 north-west. 



SCOLOPAX NOBILIS. 



NOBLE SNIPK 



Diagnosis. Scolopax pileo in longitudinem striate : rostro longo (80 ad 115 millim.) : primai-iis non fasciatis : 

 rectricibus sedecim, quarum externse angustte (circ. 5 millim.) et fulvescentes pogoniis 

 ambobus brunneo fasciaise sunt. 



Variations. Large examples of the Noble Snipe are scarcely distinguishable from small specimens of 

 the Madagascar Snipe. 



Synonymy. Gallinago nobilis, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856, p. 3] . 



Gallinago granadensis, Bunap. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 579 (1856). 

 Scolopax nobilis [Sclater), Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 133. 



Literature. Plates. — Sclater & Salvin, Exotic Orn. pi. xcviii. 



Habits. — Undescribed . 

 Eggs. — Salmon, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 547. 



