GALLINAGO. 133 



ones grey mottled and barred with black and tipped with white ; 

 median line on the head, hind-neck, and sides o£ neck rufescent; 

 lores, sides of face, and chin buffj-white with blackish dots; fore- 

 neck sandy buff with dark shaft-lines ; abdomen and sides of body 

 white barred with dark brown ; under tail-coverts buff with dark 

 brown bars ; axillaries and under wing-coverts black barred with 

 white, the greater series grey fringed with white. 



Total length 24o mm., culmen 70, wing 125, tail 50, tarsus 35. 



Adult male and female similar in coloration and measurements. 



The bird described was obtained on the Supenaam River in 

 1910, and is the first recorded in the C^olony. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JS^est. Unrecorded in British Gruiatia. 



l^gys. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Range in British Guiana. Supenaam River [McConnell 

 collection). 



Extralimital Range. Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil, Central 

 America, West India Islands, and North America. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



85. Gallinag'O braziliensis. 

 Brazilian Snipe. 



GalllnacjO braziliensis Swains. Faun. Boreal, p. 400, note, 1S31 (Equi- 

 noctial Bi-azil) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. -1-8. no. -Ill', 

 1912. 



Scolopax frenata (Illig.), Cab. in Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 758, 1848. 



(iuUinarjo frenata Salvia, Ibis, 1886, p. 179 (Bartiea Grove, Merum^ 

 Mountains, Koraima, 3500 ft.); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. 

 p. 64(3, 1896 (Aunai). 



Adult. Upper surface black varied by pale grey, brown, or 

 white markings ; lesser upper wing-coverts, bastard-wing, and 

 primary-coverts black ti})[)ed with white, the greater coverts 

 siuiilarj but some of the inner ones show a pale subapical bar ; 

 (juills blackish, outer web of first primary wbite, secondaries edged 

 with wbite at the tips, innermost secondaries barred or inarl)led 

 with brown ; outer tail-feathers white barred with dark brown, 

 the middle ones black baiul(Ml with chestnut ami tipped with 

 wbite ; median line on the head, nape, and sides of face buff' 

 with dark centres to the feathers somewhat paler on the last ; 

 a w<'ll-])r()nonncod dark loral streak ; throat and abdomen white ; 

 f(jr(.'-iu'<'k and l)rea.-t pale lirown wiili dull while margins to the 



