340 LlMICOLiE. 



Blakiston procured it at Hakodadi (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, p. 455). I 

 have a very fine series collected by Mr. Snow at Yokohama, and 

 there are eight skins in the Pryer collection also from Yokohama. It 

 has occurred at Nagasaki (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 

 1883, p. 113). 



Rectrices of Tringa acuminata. 



The Siberian form of the Pectoral Sandpiper is confined to East 

 Siberia and Alaska during the breeding-season, and difiers very 

 slightly from the Western form, which breeds in the arctic regions of 

 America. 



345. RHYNCHiEA CAPENSIS. 



(PAINTED SNIPE.) 



Scolopax capensis, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 246 (1766). 



The Painted Snipe has a decurved bill, which is not much longer 

 than the tarsus, but is considerably longer than the difierence in 

 length between the shortest and longest primary. 



Figures : Milne-Edwards and Grandidier, Hist. Madag. Ois., Atlas, 

 iii. pi. 261; Shelley, Birds of Egypt, pi. 11. 



