SNIPE. 221 



with brown ; tail barred dusky white, and pale ash-colour, rather 

 rounded at the end; legs dusky, inclining to rufous at the joints, 

 the outer and middle toe joined at the base. 



The female has the head, neck, and under parts, pale or cine- 

 reous white, streaked, and blotched with dusky ; from the nostrils 

 an irregular, whitish streak, surrounding the eye, and curving 

 downwards behind ; back and wing coverts pale ash, with here and 

 there a dusky mark ; quills as in the other sex, and the tail exactly 

 similar ; legs pale brownish red. 



Inhabits India. — Found at Cawnpore, in May. — Gen. Hardwicke. 



33 — JAVAN SNIPE. 



SIZE of a Thrush, length ten inches. Bill two inches long, 

 bending upwards, brown, with a pale base ; plumage above pale 

 dun ash-colour, a trifle mottled across the rump ; wing coverts 

 deeper; from the chin the under parts are wholly white; the wings 

 reach rather beyond the tail, and the scapulars are as long as the 

 quills ; legs pale yellow, one inch and a quarter long, bare a quarter 

 of an inch above the joint; hind toe placed very high up, so as to 

 be scarcely useful, claws black. 



Inhabits Java. Probably the one called in Sumatra Kooning 

 Kaki* 



34— SURMA SNIPE 



LENGTH twelve inches. Bill two inches and a quarter, pale, 

 rather stout, and inclining upwards ; head and neck behind, the 

 sides of it, and breast, grey and ash-colour in short streaks ; from 

 the forehead to the eyes a pale streak; chin and neck before dusky 

 white; breast, belly, thighs, and vent, pure white; feathers of the 



* Lin. Trans, xiii. 327. 



