GALLINAGO STENUEA*. 



(THE PIN-TAILED SNIPE.) 



Scolopax gallinago, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 191 (1821, nee Linn.). 



Scolopax sthenura (Kuhl), Bonap. Annali di Storia naturale, Bologna, iii. fasc. 14, " Sund 

 Islands" (1830). 



Scolopax horsfieldi, G. P. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. pi. 54. fig. 2 (1834). 



Scolopax Mclavata, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 491. 



Gallinago stenura (nee Teinm.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 272 (1849); Kelaart, Pro- 

 dromus, Cat. p. 135 ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 2GG ; Jerdon, B. of 

 Ind. iii. p. 674(1864) ; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 12 (1864) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 302 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 473 ; Hume & Marshall, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 423 ; 

 Legge, J. A. S. (Ceylon Branch), p. 52 (1S74); Salvadori, Uccclli di Borneo, p. 334 (1874) ; 

 Hume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 294 ; Parker, t. c. p. 335 ; Ball, t. e. p. 431 ; Armstrong, 

 ibid. 1876, p. 340 ; Inglis, ibid. 1877, p. 46 ; Butler & Hume, t. c. pp. 212, 213 ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 24; Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 550; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 155. 



Scolopax indica, Licht. Nomencl. p. 93 (1854, nee Hodgs.). 



Gallinago horsfieldi (Gr.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 407 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 182. 



Gallinago sthenura (Kuhl), Le Messurier, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 380; Hume, ibid. (List B. of 

 Tenass.), 1878, p. 459 ; Davidson &Wender, ibid. vii. p. 88 ; Ball, t. e. p. 320 ; Cripps, t. e. 

 p. 301 ; Hume, ibid. 1879 (List B. Malay Pen.), p. 69 ; id. t. c. (List B. of India), p. 112. 



fforsfield's Indian Snipe, JKelaart ; The Indian Snipe of some ; Snipe, Sportsmen in Ceylon. 

 Boorkat Gardung, Malay; Sekadidi, Sumatra; Burchet, Java (Horsf.); Narsya Snip, 

 Dutch in Ceylon (Mac Vicar) ; Ulan kuruvi, Ceylonese Tamils ; also Kora Kotu, Coolies 

 in Central Prov. 



Kwsivatuwa, Sinhalese. 



Adult male ami female. Length !>5 to 10-5 inches ; wing 5-2 to 5-5 ; tail 1"8 ; tarsus L25 to 1*3 ; middle toe and 

 claw 1*5 to 1-55 ; bill at front 2'3 to 2-65, average 2-4 to 2-5. "Average weight -t oz. 3 drachms " {Parker, Str. 

 Feath. ii. p. 335). 



Females are the larger of the two sexes. 



Iris deep brown; bill, upper mandible blackish, paling to dark olive at the tip, lower basal half olive-green, darkening 

 to brownish at the tip ; legs and feet olive-green, some darker than others. 



Crown, occiput, interscapulars, and scapulars velvet-black ; the face, throat, supercilium, mesial head-stripe, broad lateral 

 edges of upper back, and scapulars buff ; scapulars boldly barred and striped and the head-feathers tipped with 

 rich rufous ; hind neck, back, and wing-coverts blackish brown, the former with margins, and the back and coverts 

 with bars and tips of ochraceous grey and buff-whitish ; least wing-coverts narrowly edged pale; primaries and 

 their coverts and the secondaries dark brown, the primary-coverts and secondaries tipped with white; tertials 

 barred with rich brown and fulvous yellow; tail with the broad feathers black, crossed by a wide subtennin.il band 

 of rufous-yellow, and tipped with whitish, the si iff lateral feathers (usually six on each side) brown, with white tips ; a 



* Although this specific name was originally spelt sthenura, it is incorrect, as the idea of narrowness in the lateral 

 tail-feathers, and not strength, is meant to be implied. Srerds, meaning "narrow" (in contradistinction to adivos, 



strength), indicates the correct spelli 



