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cao, he and Mrs. Curl spent many days in hunting snipe in the 

 vicinity of Cavite, and Doctor Curl was much interested in the 

 differences by which the three species found in the Philippine 

 Islands could be distinguished. He suggested to me that there 

 might be some average differences in their weights, and I be- 

 lieve that he kept a record of the weights of many specimens; 

 but I do not think he ever published anything on the subject. 

 A male specimen of Gallinago stenura collected at Cavite on 

 September 29, 1910, by Doctor Curl has a weight of 110 grams 

 marked on the tag. Doctor Curl kindly prepared spread tails 

 of the three Philippine species for my use. I had intended to 

 photograph these, but the drawings of them (figs. 4 and 5) show 

 the differences more clearly than a photograph would. 



Fig. 4. 



a, CMlinago gdUinago (Linnaeus), and 6, G. atenura (Bonapart«), showing the dif- 

 ference in the rectriccs. Two-thirds actual size. 



Gallinago megala Swinhoe. Plate III, fig. 3 ; text fig. 5. 



Messrs. Squires-Bingham Co., of Manila, sent to the Bureau 

 of Science a partially albino male Swinhoe's snipe to be mounted. 

 This specimen was received on September 27, 1917. The white 

 feathers can be indicated in tabular form as follows : 



Table II. — White feathers in wings o 



f a specimen 



of Gallinago megala. 





Wing. 



Left. 



Right. 





First to seventh 



First to fifth 



Fourth to tenth. 

 First and second. 

 First to fourth; 



sixth to tenth. 

 Third to fourth. 

 A few. 

 Do. 

 Second and third. 











First to sixth 



Median coverts ..... .. ..... 



A few 





None 



Alula - 



Second 







