SCOLOPAX. 

 Gallinago paragnayae (Vieillof), apud auctores omnes. 



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Plates. — Unfigured . 



Habits. — Bridges. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1843, p. 118. 



Eggs. — Described (Yarrell, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1817, p. 54), from examples sent from Chili by- 

 Bridges, as measuring If by lj inch. 



Synonymy. 

 Literature. 



The Chilian form of Azara's Snipe, or the Chilian Snipe, appears to be confined to the Geographi- 



Pacific slopes of Bolivia and Chili. I have been unable to find any evidence of its t j on 



occurrence east of the Andes ; consequently the name of S. paraguayce, by which it is 



generally known, must be abandoned as sure to be always misleading, and as originally 



applied to a nearly allied local race which breeds in the Falkland Islands and winters in 



Paraguay. Under these circumstances I have been obliged most reluctantly to give it a 



new name, Scolopax chilensis, or, if we adopt a trinomial nomenclature, S. frenata 



cMlensis. 



It differs from the Brazilian Snipe only in dimensions. In both forms the length of Subspecific 



■ n -li -l • ■ characters, 



the bill from the frontal feathers vanes from 24 to 2"9 inch, but whilst in the Brazilian 



Snipe the length of the wing from the carpal joint varies from 4^- to 5 inches, that of 



the Chilian Snipe varies from 5J to 5f inches. In none of these dimensions does it 



differ materially from the Falkland-Island Snipe, which has all the appearance of being 



a desert form of its Chilian ally. In the Chilian Snipe the pale parts are very white 



and the dark parts very dark, a rich velvety dark brown. It varies in the comparative 



length of the primaries and secondaries, intergrading with the Falkland-Island race on 



the one hand, and with the Brazilian form on the other. 



Examples from Chili are common in collections, and Messrs. Salvin and Godman have 



one from Bolivia. 



SCOLOPAX FRENATA ANDINA. 



PERUVIAN SNIPE. 



Scolopax frenata rostro breviore. 



Diagnosis. 



The Peruvian Snipe is only a small race of the Brazilian Snipe, with which it intergrades. Variations. 



Gallinago andina, Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, p. 561. 

 Scolopax frenata andina [Tacz.), Scebuhm, Ibis, 1886, p. 138. 



Synonymy. 



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