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On some of the Scolopaciclee of Nepal. 
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His marks, too, are mostly less decided, and more inclined to dots than lines. 
Having noticed, that in the common snipe there are, (in many, if not in all circum- 
stances,) two kinds of tail, it becomes necessary to observe, that this species pos- 
sesses the many-feathered tail, with the lateral plumes, very acute and narrow. 
He has not, however, so many feathers in the tail as has that form ol the common 
species — having only 18 to 20 feathers with, the 8 to 10 laterals, extremely nar- 
row and hard. Were I satisfied about my competence to give a specific character, 
I should specifically denote this species thus : — Large, pale, solitary snipe, with 
tail of eighteen to twenty feathers ; the laterals narrowed and hard ; and belly, 
almost entirely barred. , 
In this species, the tarsi are not, perhaps, quite so long in proportion to t ie 
bird’s size as in the common one — and the tibia are feathered rather lower : k? s > 
fleshy yellow, or full yellow, never tinted with greenish : bill, palest fleshy brown, 
suffused with cold blue, and free from greenish tinge : iris, pale brown : entire top 
of head and nape, brown-black, dotted with rufescent white, and margined on 
both sides, and divided in the centre by longitudinal rufescent white lines ; but 
lines less distinctly defined, or more interrupted than in the common species, 
cheeks, whitish, dotted with pale dusky : chin, white and immaculate: from tit 
gape through, and beyond the eyes, a pale dusky line ; and another smaller one 
parallel to it, below : neck, pale dusky or earthy brown and rufescent w te- 
the colours disposed lengthwise, but indistinctly, and, on the lateral surfaces, m 
nearly equal portions — on the dorsal surface, the dusky or brown prevailing-*® 
the pectoral face, the rufescent white : breast, the same, but the colour s pa 
and more indistinct, and mixed with some transverse dusky zigzags : round 
bends of the wings, on the sides of the breast, brighter rufescent white, wn 
the marks clear and transverse: centre of the breast, whitish, with transfers 
fuscous bars: sides of the body, white, with transverse zigzags of broun 
sides of the belly, to the vent, the same : mere centre of the belly, ” nllU j cl ^ 
white : thighs, white, uHth occasional small dusky cross-bars : interna ^ 
coverts, palely rufescent white, with pale dusky transverse zigzags : interna ^ ^ 
coverts, consisting of nearly equal parts of pure Tjlack and white, dispose 
versely : upper part of the back, imperfect black, variegated with numeious^^ 
and some small irregular transverse bars of yellow red, and margined on ^ 
side with a broad clear longitudinal line, of white, or rufescent white . 1 ^ 
and flags falling into the line of them, the same, and similarly ^ 
more variegated with bars and cuneiform marks : lower part of back, (un 
long scapulars and flags,) and superior tail-coverts, yellow led and du^^ ^ 
in equal parts, disposed in transverse zigzags— but both colours, an ^ 
position, much more distinct on the former than on the latter P ar ^ 
dusky, all tipped with white ; and the outer web, also, of the fiist a 
quills, edged with white, or fully white : external wing-coverts— the ^ 
dusky, margined with white — the centrals, dirty rufescent yellow, ^ e rs, 
pale dusky — the largest, dusky, with white tips. The tail, with its centra ^ ^ 
for |ths from the base, black, for the terminal |th, orange, crossed near rufegceB t 
with black — the tips themselves rufous white, and with the latera ^ 
Avhite, becoming in the extremes, pure white, traversed with numerou > 
dusky, bars. 
Scahpax Gallinago : (Nobis.) Woodcock Snipe. Hat. Nepal^ ^ 
This most interesting species was discovered in tile valley of ^^ecn colir 
years back; and, in the interval, many specimens and drawings a\e ^ 0 f 
municated to gentlemen resident in India, who take interest in oo o 0 
