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The Philippine Journal of Science 



1918 



I do not find that dowitcher is given by Newton * or by Mur- 

 ray/ Snipe-billed sandpiper ° and snipe-billed godwit seem to 

 me undesirable. Red-breasted snipe, gray snipe, brown snipe. 

 New York godwit, long-billed snipe, red-bellied snipe, and some 

 other less-used names are inappropriate and not distinctive^ 



Totanus stagnatilis Bechstein. Fig. 3. 



Totamis stagnatilis McGregor, Phil. Journ. Sci., Sec. D (1916), 11, 

 274 (Luzon). 



Since reporting the occurrence of Totamis stagnatilis in Lu- 

 zon, I have found three more specimens in the Bureau of Science 

 collection, which were killed at Obando, Bulacan Province, Lu- 



FlO. 3. Totanus stagnatilis Becluttein, generic details, from a male. Actual size. 



zon, on November 15, 1910. In 1916 Celestino collected a male 

 on November 29 and a female on December 27 in the same 

 locality. 



Gallinago stenura (Bonaparte) . Fig. 4, b. 



During the time that Dr. H. C. Curl was stationed at Cafia- 



* Newton, Alfred, A Dictionary of Birds. Adam and Charles Black, 

 London (1893). 



'Murray, Sir James, A New English Dictionary. Oxford (1897), 3. 



• Seebohm, H., The Birds of the Japanese Empire. R. H. Porter, London 

 (1890), 330. Blanford, W. T., The Fauna of British India, including 

 Ceylon and Burma. Birds. Taylor and Francis, London (1898), 4, 257. 



' Trumbull, op. cit. 



