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verse bars of pale reddish-white. Bill dark brown, lighter at base of 

 under mandible. " Irides dark brown ; legs pale red" (Peale) . 



Hab. — Orange Bay, Tierra del Fuego. Specimen in Nat. Mus, 

 Washington City. 



This is a very remarkable species, the only specimen of which, that 

 we have ever seen, is in the collection of the Expedition. It belongs 

 to an intermediate group, partaking in almost equal proportions of the 

 characters of the restricted genus Scolopax, or the Woodcocks (of 

 which the European Scolopax rusticola is the type), and of the genus 

 Gallinago, or the Snipes. Its thick and strong bill, and very robust 

 legs, appear to us, however, to give it preferable claims to be regarded 

 as a Scolopax or Woodcock. 



Scolopax saturata, Horsfield, figured in that eminent author's Zoolo- 

 gical Researches in Java, approximates somewhat to the intermediate 

 group to which we allude, and presents greater general resemblance 

 to the present species, than any other with which we are acquainted. 

 The stripes on the head, however, in the present bird, are longitudi- 

 nal, as in Gallinago. The only specimens that we have ever seen of 

 this interesting species, are in the collection of the Expedition, and 

 appear to be in mature plumage. 



The only note relating to this bird that we find, is by Mr. Peale, as 

 follows ; 



" This Woodcock is common in damp thick forests, or moist bushy 

 lands about Orange Bay, Tierra del Fuego. We never saw it on open 

 marshy ground where the Magellanic Snipe is common." 



Our figure represents this bird of the natural size. 



2. Scolopax aucklandica [G. E. Gray). 



Gallinago aucklandica, Q. R. Gray, Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, Birds, p. 13 

 (1845). 



Scolopax Holmesii, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 229 (1st ed. 1848).* 

 Zool. Voy. Erebus and Terror, Birds, Plate XIII. 



* Mr. Peale does not give a description of this species. 



