GRALLATORES. 



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Gray, Genera of Birds, III, Plate CLVII ? 



Specimens from Orange Bay, Tierra del Fuego, where, according to 

 Mr. Peale, it was observed to be of common occurrence. This species 

 is larger than the preceding, and with the plumage of the upper parts 

 lighter colored, though strictly belonging to the same generic group. 

 It much resembles Mr. Gray's figure, as above cited, and is about the 

 same size, but of the species there represented, S. leucurm, we have 

 no specimens for comparison. 



3. Gallinago stenura {Temminch) . 



Scolopax stenura, Temm. 



Scolopax Horsfieldii, Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. II (name on plate, 1834). 



Scolopax hidavata, HoDGSON, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 491. 



Scolopax pectenicauda, Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 227 (Isted. 1848).* 



Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. II, Plate LIV. 



Specimens in the collection are from Singapore. We find nothing 

 in the notes of the naturalists of the Expedition in relation to this 

 species. 



* " Size and general appearance analogous to the foregoing (^S. brasiliensis, magel- 

 lanicus, and australis), the tail-feathers presenting the only striking peculiarity ; they 

 are twenty-six in number, the eight outer shafts on each side having very narrow webs, 

 somewhat widened at the ends; the ground color of the head, neck, breast, back, and 

 wing-coverts, pale ferruginous ; two stripes of brown pass over the crown, and another 

 from the bill to the eye ; neck-feathers lineated with brown ; scapulars lineated and 

 barred with brown; lesser wing-coverts barred; under wing-coverts and flanks white, 

 barred with black; primaries brown, first longest; shafts above pale brown, beneath 

 white ; tail tipped with white, excepting the two centre feathers, within the white a nar- 

 row dark brown band, and within that again, the eight centre feathers have a broad 

 ferruginous band, from that to the roots all are brown, the outer ones being lightest. 



" Total length, ten and a half inches ; wing, from the carpal joint, five and eight-tentha 

 inches ; bill, two and six-tenths inches ; to the corner of the mouth, two and a half 

 inches; tarsi, one and three-tenths inches; middle toe, including the nail, one and 

 eleven-twentieths inches; nail, one-fourth of an inch; hind toe, half an inch; nail, three- 

 twentieths of an inch ; tail, one and six-tenths inches." 



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