200 SNIPE. 



lower part of the neck and back undulated with black and grey ; 

 wing coverts finely undulated black and ash-colour ; the second 

 tjuills and tail undulated grey and black alternately; the under part 

 of the body white; legs the colour of the bill. 



Inhabits Madagascar. This and the last are represented in the 

 drawings from India, as male and female, under the name of Pour- 

 kar Burka, or Painted Snipe. The male answers in colour to the 

 above described ; the female is much the same as in the latter 

 description, but the wing coverts are dull green, undulated with 

 black lines ; the chin not white ; round the lower part of the neck, 

 below the rufous, surrounded with black; legs pale, or dusky white. 



Found in Java, and there called Pengung. 



A.— Cape Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 138. 9. A. pi. SI. Lid. Orn. ii. 716. 10. j3. 



The top of the head, throat, and fore part of the neck, rufous 

 chestnut; chin almost white; eye surrounded with black, and placed 

 in a long bed of white ; pointing to the hindhead ; the rest of the 

 head, neck, and breast, black; back, rump, wing coverts, and second 

 quills, dark olive-green, elegantly mottled and barred with dusky; 

 scapulars white ; the two middle tail feathers like the back ; the 

 others, and greater quills dusky black, marked with large, orange 

 spots, five or six on each feather ; belly, thighs, and vent, white; 

 bill and legs pale brown. 



The description, and figure of this Variety, taken from a painting 

 by the late Mr. Edwards, in my possession 



B. — Rallus Benglialensis, Lin. i. 263. Gm. Lin. i. 715. Klein, 104. 5. lnd. 



Orn ii. 717. 

 Totanus Bengalensis, Bris. v. 209. Id. 8vo. ii. 266. 

 Le Chevalier vert, Bnf. vii. 520. 

 Bengal Water Rail, Alb. iii. pi. 90. Gen. Syn. v. 140. Var. D. 



SIZE of the others ; length eight inches and a half. Bill shorter, 

 colour of it, and the irides yellow ; crown of the head white ; round 



