On some of the Scolopaciclce of Nepal. 
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cd with yellowish pale green : iris, brown : entire top of the head and nape, black, 
dotted with reddish, and margined on both sides, and divided in the centre by 
reddish yellow lines, running lengthwise : cheeks, pale ruddy yellow, dotted with 
dusky: chin, yellowish white and immaculate : from the gape through and beyond 
the eye, a dusky line, and another smaller one across the ears : neck, dusky 
and pale ruddy yellow— the colours disposed lengthwise, but not very distinctly, 
and on the lateral surfaces, in nearly equal portions— on the dorsal surface the 
dusky prevailing — on the pectoral face, the reddish yellow : breast, the same, 
hut the colours paler and more indistinct : quite round the bends of the wings, 
on the sides of the breast, brighter ruddy yellow, with the marks disposed mostly 
crosswise ; but irregularly, many of them being wedge-shaped : sides ot the body, 
cross-barred irregularly' with dusky' : entire belly to vent, pure white : thighs, 
the same, with occasionally' a few faint dusky cross bars : internal tail-coverts, 
pale rufous yellow, with dusky zigzag bars, inclining to wedge-form : internal 
wing-coverts, consisting of nearly equal parts, of pure white and black, disposed 
transversely : upper part of the back, black varied with some rufous yellow dots 
and incipient bars, and margined on either side by a clear broad longitudinal line 
of ruddy yellow : scapulars, and flags falling into the line ot them, the same, and 
similarly margined, but more variegated ; the dots spreading into lines, and de- 
scending either web, till, by approximating below, they become cuneiform: lower 
part of the back, (beneath the large scapulary plumes,) and superior tail-coveits, 
yellow red, cross-barred, but irregularly, with dusky black : quills dusky, the 
edges of the primaries, and tips of the secondaries, (save those already described 
as falling in with the scapulars,) white : external wing-coverts— the smallest, 
dusky, tipped with white— the centrals, dusky, cross-barred, with dull impure 
rufous yellow, or dull yellowish, barred with dusky— the largest, dusky, with 
white tips. The tail has the central feathers for £rds from the base, full black— 
for the terminal third, orange, crossed near the tips with a narrow dusky band ; 
the tips themselves pale orange : but even these central feathers have their 
black basal portion indented with orange : and as you approach the lateral fea- 
thers, these indentations spread into bars, and fade nearly to white ; tips ot these 
laterals, pure white : the extreme laterals dusky, vaguely barred with whitish 
towards the tips, and clearly tipped with white. 
The bird, which has 14 to 16 uniform feathers in its tail, is distinguished from 
Ate above, by having the extreme lateral feathers o * the tail more distinctly and 
re gularly coloured — the ground being, in them, whitish, and the bars, (which arc 
distinct,) dusky ; and, by having its internal wing-coverts, except those two or 
fbree long ones adhering to the sides of the body, white, very inconsiderably and 
irregularly marked with black. Here and there is something like a trans- 
V( rse bar, or rather cuneiform mark, the variegations being, for the rest, like 
blotches more than bars — and half the coverts being entirely devoid of them. This 
1)lr d has too, almost invariably, a longer bill than the other ; but his general 
plumage and characters, with the exceptions noted, entirely alike. 
It should now become my business to describe the two new and rare species ot 
Sn 'pe, the account of which was the original sole object of this paper. But befoie 
proceeding with that account, it will be necessary for me to advert to the contradis 
Active points of the genera Scolopax and Gallinago, in order that it may be seen 
Upon w hat grounds I afterwards assign those two species to the one gmas, rat ier 
11lan to the other— although, in truth, I am much less interested about their 
" ein g consigned to this or that genus, than I am with the circumstance ot their 
Jr ming s 0 interesting a link between the two. Comparing the bills ol t e 
