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Birds of Celebes: Cbaradriidae. 
c. Scolopax megala (1) Rosenb. , Malay. Arcbip. 1878, 278; (2) id., Zool. Glarten 1881, 167, 
(3) Seeb., Distr. Cbaradr. 1887, 479; (4) id., B. Japan 1890, 343. 
d. 1 Scolopax australis (1) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 203. 
e. Scolopax stenura Kuhl (Gallinago stenura auctorum). 
For further synonymy and references cf. Salvador! 72; Taczanowski 27; Sharpe 25. 
Figure and descriptions. Radde a I\ Swinhoe 7; David & Oust. 8; Salvador! 72; 
Seebohm c .3 (woodcut of tail); Taczanowski 21\ Sharpe 25. 
Autumn. Head above black, with a mesial stripe of buff-brown; back and scapulars 
black, with a long buff-brown interscapulary stripe on each side and the scapulars 
broadly edged with buff-brown; lower back blackish brown, with whitish tips, rump 
with buff-brown tips; upper tail-coverts more russet brown, with indistinct bars; 
tail-feathers, 20 in number, black, with a broad (ca. 1 cm) subterminal space of 
dark fennginous on the six middle feathers, bounded distally with an irregular black 
line, the tip wlhtish; tlie lateral rectrices much attenuated (the outermost ca. 2.5 mm 
broad at 10 mm from tip, the sixth ca. 6 mm broad), tipped with white, basaUy 
blackish, the outermost two or toee mottled basally with blackish and white; lesser 
and outer greater wing-coverts, primary coverts and remiges dark hair- 
brown, most of the coverts tipped with white; middle and inner greater wing- 
coverts and tertiaries pale brown varied with blackish bars; sides of forehead 
and superciliary stripe, cheeks and upper throat buff-brown; loral stripe 
blackish; neck all round, ear-coverts, jugulum, upper breast, sides and 
under tail-coverts duller buff-brown, streaked with blackish, tending to form bars 
on sides and tail-coverts; abdomen white; under wing-coverts barred with 
blackish and white, the dark bars rather the broader; “bill blackish brown; feet grey; 
iris nearly black” (Taczan. 27); wing 140 mm; tail 55; tarsus 33; mid. toe with 
claw 38; exp. culmen 60 ((^f, N. Bohol, Nov. 1877: Everett — C 5426). 
Sex. The sexes are similar in coloration. 
Young. The young in down are described by Taczanowski as having a colour quite 
different from that of the young of G. scolapacina, being altogether paler (des- 
cribed: b 2, 27). 
Eggs. Ground-colour cream-white or a little more yellowish, or pale and dirty ochre; under- 
lying spots reddish ashy, superficial ones reddish brown or brown, the large ones 
obliquely grouped as dashes at the large end, where there are also some streaks, 
some zigzags or black spots, on the rest of the surface only points and httle streaks 
intermingled with a small number of dashes of moderate size; measurements 40 — 43 
X 30 — 32 mm (from Taczanowski 27). 
Nest. Situated in a dry place covered with plant-growth, always in the open, even in bush- 
grown spots; the nest a little cavity lined with dry plants (Baikal country — 
Taczanowski 27). 
Distribution. East Siberia (Radde, etc. 27); Sakhalien (Nikolski 27); Japan (Fryer c4); 
China (Swinhoe 7, David 8, etc.); Formosa (Swinhoe 2); Phihppines — Luzon 
(Jagor 6, Whitehead 23), Cebu and Leyte (Everett 7, 9), Siquijor, Negros, 
Masbate, Panay, Sibuyan, Calamianes, Tawi-Tawi (Bourns & Worcester 22), 
Basilan (Steere73), Mindanao (Everett .9, Steere78), Palawan (Whit eh d. 73, 74); 
N. Borneo (Whitehead 75); Celebes — Manado (Meyer 10), Gorontalo Distr. 
(Forsten 3, v. Rosenb. c 2), Macassar (Weber 25); Saleyer (Everett 24); Moluccas 
— Halmahera, Teinate, Batchian, Amboina (Salvador! 72); Pelew Is. (Kubary 78). 
Swinhoe separated this Snipe from G. stenura (Kuhli on the ground that 
it was larger and had fewer and broader attenuated lateral rectrices. The eggs 
