G ALLIN AGO NEMOEICOLA. 
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Concerning its distribution in India, we do not learn much from any author, save Jerdon, who writes as 
follows : ■“ This Solitary or Wood-Snipe is found in the Himalayas, the Nilghiris, Coorg, and occasionally in 
the Wynaad, and other elevated regions of Southern India and Ceylon (?) ; it is also said to occur in consider- 
able numbers in the Sharunpoor district below Hurdwar, and generally in the extensive swamps at the foot 
of the Himalayas It is by no means common or abundant anywhere, and on the Nilghiris but few couples 
are shot in general in one season.” Hodgson procured it in Nepal, whence there are specimens of his in the 
national collection. I find no record of it from the south of India in the writings of observers in ‘ Stray 
Feathers/ but we have Mr. Hume’s authority that Mr. Davison has frequently shot it in the Nilghiris. 
It has lately been recorded from Tenasserim j and its occurrence there has considerably extended its 
hitherto solely Indian habitat. Mr. Hume’s note of it is f ‘ Davison flushed a specimen of this species m a 
bit of thick jungle on the banks of a little stream near Malcwoon. He has shot numbers of this species on the 
Nilghiris, and is, he says, perfectly certain of the identification.” 
Habits.— 'The. Wood-Snipe is an inhabitant, as its name implies, of jungle, being found in damp spots on 
the borders of forest, in swampy brushwood, near streams flowing through woods, &c. Jerdon remarks that 
“ it flies heavily, and, having a large expanse of wing, is not unfrequently taken for a Woodcock.” Mr. Nevill 
notes that it is found in Ceylon “ among low bushes at the edge of swampy patna-lands.” I am unable to 
furnish any detailed information concerning its habits, as I have never met with it myself ; nor am I able to 
speak of its nidification, as no data touching it have as yet been published. 
The accompanying woodcuts illustrate the difference in the legs of this species and the \V oodcock, and 
are given for the information of local students. 
Leg and foot of Scolopax rusticulci. 
Leg and foot of Gallinago nemoricola. 
