THE JACK SHIP Ee. 
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Gallinago gallinula, Linné. 
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i); bharca, Vegal ; 
Vernacular Names.—[Chota chaha, (Hindustani) ; Chota _ ; 
Oolan* (Tamil), Madras; Tibud, Pan-lawa, (Mahrati), Ratnagirt at J 
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ete) HE Jack Snipe occurs throughout the whole of Con 
iN. a and Peninsular India, including probably 
€ Ceylon, but not the Andamans or Nicobars. 
Colonel Graham admits its occurrence in the 
neighbourhood of Dibrugarh, but it must be very 
rare in the valley of Assam, as neither Godwin- 
, Austen nor any of his or my collectors appear, as 
yet, to have met with it there. In Sylhet and Cachar I only 
know of single specimens having been procured. I have no 
record of its occurrence in Tipperah or Aracan, and in Chitta- 
gong Mr. Fasson tells me that it is decidedly rare. In Pegu 
_ it it said to be very rare, and in Tenasserim I only know of its 
occasional appearance in the neighbourhood of Moulmein. 
Practically my present information leads me to consider it in 
the light of a mere straggler to all parts of the Empire east of 
the Brahmaputra. But I found it myself by no means very 
rare near Dacca ; and it is quite possible that it is rather the 
defectiveness of our present knowledge than the real rarity of 
the bird that has led me to this conclusion ; and I do hope that 
sportsmen in these eastern portions of our Empire will give 
some little attention henceforth to the matter. 
The distribution, elsewhere, in Asia of this species is rather 
perplexing. It does not occur, so far as we have been able to 
ascertain, anywhere in the Malay Peninsula ; the only authen- 
tic record of its occurrence anywhere in China is a single 
specimen sent from Formosa; and a single specimen has simi- 
larly been sent from Japan. Prjevalski never met with it in 
Mongolia, Western China, or Chinese Tibet. Taczanowski, 
summing up all the records, says that it is found nowhere in 
Southern or Eastern Siberia, though Middendorff found it 
breeding in the extreme north on the Boganida (Latitude 70° N.), 
* This name, though commonly used for all the Snipe, more properly applies, 
I believe, to the smaller Sandpipers. 
+t Probably most of the names appliedto the Common and Pintail Snipes are also 
applied to this with some qualitative term signifying “small,” 
