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CHINESE RHYNCH.EA. 
crossed with black : the quills have four or five yel- 
lowish bars on the inner web of each feather, and 
about the same number of similar coloured round 
spots on the outer web : the tail-feathers are marked 
in the same manner ; the four middle feathers having 
yellowish bars, and the four outer ones on each side 
being spotted : the outer edge of the quills is streaked 
with white : at the upper part of the breast is a band 
of black ; from this all the under parts are whitish : 
the legs are dusky. Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 
CHINESE RHYNCHJ5A. 
(Rhyncliaea Sinensis.) 
Rh. ccErulescente Jusco rufo nigroque variegata, superciliis lined 
verticis guld abdomineque albis. 
Rhynchsea variegated with bluish, brown, red, and black, with 
the eyebrows, a line on the vertex, the throat and abdomen 
white. 
Scolojiax Sinensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 717. 
La Becassine de la Chine. Bitff. Ois. 7.495. Buff. PI. Enl. 881. 
Cape Snipe, B. Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 139. 
This has somewhat the appearance of the former, 
and is thus described by Latham : " Smaller than the 
Common Snipe : length ten inches : beak yellow, 
with a dusky tip : top of the head brown, mixed with 
black : down the middle of the crown, and over each 
eye, a stripe of white : the chin white : the rest of 
the head and neck mixed-grey and pale-brown : the 
