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Gallinago lamottii, Baill., fide Bp. Compt. Rend, xliii. p. 579 (1856). 



Gallinago pygmcea, Baill., fide Bp. ut supra (1856). 



Gallinago picta, Hempr., fide Bp. ut supra (1856). 



Gallinago cegyptiaca, Aliq., fide Bp. ut supra (1856). 



Gallinago (Spilura) japonica, Bp., J. E. Gray, Hand-1. of B. p. 53. no. 10346 (1871). 



Telmatias sabinei (Vig.), Rey, Syn. Eur. Brutvogel, p. 110. no. 432 (1872). 



Scolopax russata, Gould, B. of Great Britain, Introd. p. 115 (1873). 



Croman loin, Naosg, Gaelic ; Becassine ordinaire, French ; Narseja ordinaria, Portuguese ; 

 Agachadiza, Agachona, Spanish ; Beccaccino reale, Italian ; Choseh, Arabic ; Bou-monJcar, 

 Moorish ; gemeine Schnepfe, Moor schnepfe, German ; Watersnip, Dutch ; Bobbelt Bek- 

 kasin, Danish ; Mujresnujpa, Fseroese ; Hrossagaukur, Myrisnipa, Icelandic ; Enkelt- 

 Bekkasin, Baagjeit, Norwegian ; Enkel-Beckasin, Horsgok, Swedish ; Taivaan-vuohi, 

 Finnish ; Bekass, Barachek, Russian. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PI. Enl. 883 ; Werner, Atlas, Gralles, pi. 30 ; Kjaerb. Orn. Dan. taf. 37 ; 

 Frisch, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 229 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 37. fig. 7 ; Naumann, Vog. 

 Deutschl. taf. 209 ; Sundevall, Svensk. Fogl. pi. 44. fig. 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 321 ; 

 id. B. of G. Brit. iv. pi. 79 ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 222 ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 301. 



Ad. pileo nigro-fusco, centraliter lateraliterque cervino striate : corpore supra, nigro, rufo et rufescente cervino 

 variegato et striis lateralibus quatuor longituclinalibus cervinis : remigibus nigro-fuscis, prirnario externo 

 extiis cervino marginato : tectricibus alarum albido terminatis et vix fasciatis : uropygio et supracau- 

 dalibus rufescenti -cervinis nigro marmoratis : rectricibus lateralibus rufescenti-cervinis nigro fasciatis, 

 centralibus nigris rufescenti terminatis nigroque marmoratis et fasciatis : loris nigricantibus : collo et 

 pectore superiore cervino-albidis nigro variegatis : hypochondriis et axillaribus albis nigro fasciatis, 

 illis cervino tinctis : subcaudalibus cervinis nigro fasciatis : rostro ad basin pallide rufescente, versus 

 apicem fusco : pedibus viridi-griseis : iride nigro-fusca. 



Adult Female (Spain, January) . Crown blackish brown with a broad central and two lateral buffy lines ; 

 upper parts black varied with rufous and warm buff, the buff collecting so as to form long lines on 

 each side of the back; quills blackish, the first quill margined externally with buffy white; wing- 

 coverts tipped and slightly barred with dull white; rump and upper tail-coverts rufous buff barred 

 with blackish; central rectrices black tipped with rufous, marbled and barred with black; lateral 

 rectrices rufous buff barred with blackish; lores blackish; neck, throat, and upper breast buffy white 

 varied with blackish ; flanks and axillaries white barred with blackish, the former tinged with buff; 

 under tail-coverts warm buff barred with blackish ; bill pale reddish brown at the base, dark brown at 

 the end; legs dull pale greenish; iris deep brown. Total length about 10"5 inches, bill 2 - 9, wing 5"1, 

 tail 2"4, tarsus 1"4, middle toe with claw 1"5. 



Adult Male. Closely resembles the female, but is rather smaller in size. 



Obs. In the spring the plumage differs from that worn in the autumn by the wing-feathers having the 

 pale margins worn off, making the wing appear much darker, and the long stripes on the back are 

 paler and more ochreous in tinge. In immature dress the general plumage is duller, and the legs are 

 stouter, softer, and rather paler, the bill also being much softer than in the adult. 



