498 



SCOLOPAX. 



Literature. 



Subspecific 

 characters. 



Plates. — Un figured. 



Habits. — Taczanowski, Orn. Perou, iii. p. 375. 



Eggs. — Unknown. 



The Peruvian form of Azara's Snipe is a miniature of the Brazilian form, which it 

 resembles in colour. The average dimensions of the two races are as follows : — 



S.frenata. 8. andina. 



inch. inch. 



Bill 2-9 to 2-4 2-1 to 2-0 



Wing 4-9 to 4-5 4 6 to 4-5 



Tarsus 13 to 1-2 M to 1-0 



Geographi- 

 cal distribu- 

 tion. 



It is only known from the Peruvian Andes, where it was first obtained by Whitely 

 (Sclater & Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 151), about 10,000 feet above the level of the 

 sea, near Cuzco ; and afterwards by Jelski, who obtained the type described by Taczanowski 

 near Lake Junin, about 300 miles to the north-west in the same chain. More recently it 

 has been found by Stolzmann (Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 213) about 

 9000 feet above the level of the sea at Cutervo, about 400 miles further still to the 

 north-west. 



SCOLOPAX NOBILIS. 



NOBLE SNIPE. 



Diagnosis. 



Variations. 



Scolopax pileo in longitudinern striato : rostro longo (80 ad 115 millim.) : primariis non fasciatis : 

 rectricibus sedecim, quarum extemse angustse (circ. 5 millim.) et fulvescentes pogoniis 

 ambobus brunneo fasciatse sunt. 



Large examples of the Noble Snipe are scarcely distinguishable from small specimens of 

 the Madagascar Snipe. 



Synonymy. Gallinago nobilis, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856, p. 31. 



Gallinago granadensis, Bonap. Compt. Rend, sliii. p. 579 (1856). 

 Scolopax nobilis (Sclater), Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 133. 



Literature. Plates. — Sclater & Salvin, Exotic Orn. pi. xcviii. 



Habits. — Undescribed. 

 Eggs. — Salmon, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1879, p. 547. 



