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but the next only slightly shorter, the distal primaries rather strongly 
bowed, otherwise normal; tertials broad and rounded at tip, falling 
far short of tips of longest primaries. Tail nearly half as long as 
wing, slightly rounded; rectrices 12. Tarsus shorter than middle 
toe with claw (but longer than middle toe without claw), scutellate 
anteriorly, covered laterally and posteriorly by small hexagonal 
scales; lateral toes much shorter than middle toe, the outer slightly 
longer than the inner; no web between middle and either of the 
lateral toes; claws moderate or rather small, moderately curved. 
Coloration.—Above brown and gray barred and blotched with 
blackish, the posterior half of pileum crossed by three bands of 
blackish and three of whitish; under parts dull whitish, narrowly 
barred with dusky brown. 
SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA Linnzus. 
WOODCOCK. 
Adults (sexes alike).2—General color of upper parts rusty brown, 
variegated by lighter transverse spots and dusky lines; scapulars and 
median portion of back with irregular large black spots or blotches, 
the former much mixed with light grayish posteriorly, the inter- 
scapular region almost continuously light grayish laterally, forming 
a well-defined V-shaped mark inclosing the black-spotted and rusty 
central area; rump lighter rusty or cinnamon narrowly barred with 
dusky, the upper tail-coverts similar but mostly tipped with light gray- 
ish; rectrices black, serrated along edge of outer web with rusty and 
broadly tipped with light gray; forehead and anterior portion of 
crown brownish gray; rest of pileum black, crossed by four narrow 
bands of light rusty or ochraceous, two through the black, the other 
two bounding it anteriorly and posteriorly, respectively; a wide 
loral stripe of blackish brown, extending from rictus to anterior 
angle of eye; chin whitish; rest of under parts pale buffy grayish 
(nearly white medially) irregularly barred with blackish brown; 
primaries dusky, their outer webs with triangular spots of pale 
cinnamon, arranged so as to form transverse bands, the outermost 
quill broadly edged with white; bill flesh color in life, light brownish 
or horn color in dried skins, dusky terminally; iris dark brown; 
feet livid flesh color in life, light brownish in dried skins. 
Downy young.—General color warm buff, the upper parts with 
large variously shaped areas of chestnut, these arranged as follows: 
An isolated, somewhat cuneate, spot on middle of forehead; a 
longitudinal stripe down median portion of rump; a longitudinal 
patch covering occiput and nape, and sending out, on each side, 
« As to alleged differences in coloration of the sexes see Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. 
Club, xxv, 1910, 34-38, according to whom there is not only no difference between 
male and female nor is there any between adults and young. 
