204 SNIPE. 



brown stripe, and on each side of the head, behind the eye, another; 

 on the back are two black brown bands; throat and fore part of the 

 neck fulvous, marked with blackish spots ; the rest of the under 

 parts white, except a black band across the breast; the quills and 

 tail variegated with black, fulvous, and grey; the hind toe of equal 

 length with the fore ones. 

 Inhabits Madras. 



14— WHITE INDIAN SNIPE. 



Scolopax Indica, Ind. Orn. ii. 718. Gm. Lin. i. 667. 

 La Becassine blanche des Indes, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 218. 

 White Indian Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 141. 



THIS is less than our Snipe. Bill black ; head white, tinged 

 with very pale dirty grey; through the eye a grey streak, reaching 

 almost to the hindhead ; a little beneath the eye is another of the 

 same colour; throat white ; the neck and breast dirty white, marked 

 with spots, and longitudinal streaks of dirty grey ; back, rump, 

 wing coverts, secondaries, and tail, dirty grey, crossed with waved 

 bands of the colour of umber; the lesser wing coverts almost white 

 on the outer web; belly and vent white, sides of the former crossed 

 with pale dirty grey bands; legs black. 



Inhabits India. 



15— SATURATED SNIPE. 



Scolopax saturata, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 191. — Horsfield. 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill pretty long, and tuberculated at 

 the base; plumage above variegated with black, and deep chestnut; 

 beneath paler; at the base of the under mandible a small whitish 

 spot; the anterior part of the neck transversely banded with black 

 and chestnut; the breast and belly sooty black, with irregular dusky 



