SCOLOPAX SATURATA. 
Ord. V 1 ?" Les Echassiers, Cuvier. 4™ Famille, Les Longirostres. 
Ord. XIII 1 * Grallatores, Temminck. 
Ord. IV, Grallje, Linn, Syst. 
Ord. VI. Grallatores, Illiger. Fam. 32, Limicolse. 
SCOLOPAX, £t*i*. Lath. Cuv. Temm. IHiger, &c. 
Char. Gen,— Ifoyfram elongatum, gracile, molliusculum, teretiusculum, rectum, 
apicibus mandibukrum obtusis, mortuis rugoloso-scabris, sulco medio exaratis, 
maxillae apice prominulo, incrassato. Maiidibulse sulco, tomia legente, culmen 
distinguente, versus apicem evanescente exaratse. Nares basales membrana 
tectffi, apertura lineari, longitudinali antrorsum patentes. Lingua mediocris, 
angusta, acuta. Fades attenuata, plumata. Ala tuberculatas. Pedes grallarii, 
mediocres, congnii, tetradactyli, fissi. Hallux phalangem digiti antici cequans, 
tenuis, apice insistens. Ungues falculares. Tarsus digito medio brevior. 
Acropodia scutulata. ( Illiger.) 
Scolopax saturato-fusco castaneoque varia, supra fasciis alternis infequalibus, colio 
antice pectoreque aequalibus, abdomine et crisso dilutioribus, occipite obscuris. 
Tekken, of the Javanese. * 
Scolopax saturata, Horsf. Syst Arrangement of Birds from Java, Linn. Trans. 
Vol. XIII. jo. 191. 
THE Scolopax saturata belongs to the first section which M. Temminck has 
established in this genus. It agrees with the European and American Woodcocks, 
not only in its manners and place of abode, but also in certain external marks, which 
readily distinguish the birds of this section from the other species of Scolopax. 
These exhibit themselves in the tibiae being covered with plumes to the knees, in a 
bill proportionally of great length, in a white extremity to the tail-feathers under- 
neath, and in three or four transverse hands on the posterior part of the head and 
