SNIPE. 203 



This is said to inhabit Siam ; and has some things in common 

 with the Chinese Species; but as it seems to differ in several par- 

 ticulars, it may Tor the present be esteemed as distinct. 



12.— CHINESE SNIPE. 



Scolopax Sinensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 717. Nat. Misc. pi. 729. 

 La Becassine de la Chine, Buf. vii. 495. PI. enl. 881. 

 Rhynchoea, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. civ. 

 Cape Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 139. Var. B. 



SMALLER than the Common Snipe; length ten inches. Kill 

 yellow, with a dusky tip ; the top of the head brown, mixed with 

 black; down the middle of the crown, and over each eye, a stripe 

 of white ; chin white ; the rest of the head and neck mixed grey and 

 pale brown ; fore part of the neck streaked perpendicularly ; behind 

 it, and all round the bottom, transversely ; upper part of the body 

 and wings delicately mixed, and waved with bluish grey, brown, 

 pale rufous, and black; breast, belly, and vent white; quills dusky, 

 marked with oval, cream-coloured spots ; tail blue-grey and dusky 

 mixed, with three or four roundish, cream-coloured spots on each 

 feather, surrounded with black ; legs grey. 



Inhabits China, and appears to bear some affinity to the Cape 

 Species. 



13— MADRAS SNIPE. 



Scolopax Maderaspatana, Ind. Orn. ii. 717. Gm. Lin. i. 667. 

 Gallinago Maderaspatana, Bris. v. 308. Id. 8vo. i. 287. 

 La Becassine de Madras, Buf. vii. 496. 

 Partridge Snipe, Rait, Syn. 193. 1. 1. f. 2. 

 Madras Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 141. 



BILL pale rufous; the plumage on the upper parts mixed with 

 fulvous and blackish; down the middle of the crown a blackish 



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