GALLIC AGO STENURA*. 
(THE PTN-T AILED SNIPE.) 
Scolopax gallinago, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 191 (1821, nec Linn.). 
Scolopax stlienura (Kuhl), Bonap. Annali di Storia naturale, Bologna, iii. fasc. 14, “ Sund 
Islands” (1830). 
Scolopax liorsjieldi, G. R. Gray, 111. Ind. Zool. pi. 54. fig. 2 (1834). 
Scolopax hiclavata, Hodgs. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 491. 
Gallinago stenura ( nec Temm.), Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 272 (1849); Kelaart, Pro- 
dromus, Cat. p. 135 ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1854, xiv. p. 266 ; Jerdon, B. of 
Ind. iii. p. 674 (1864) ; Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces , p. 12 (1864) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1870, 
p. 302; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 473; Hume & Marshall, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 423; 
Legge, J. A. S. (Ceylon Branch), p. 52 (1874); Salvadori, Uccelli di Borneo, p. 334 (1874) ; 
Flume, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 294 ; Parker, t. c. p. 335 ; Ball, t. c. p. 431 ; Armstrong, 
ibid. 1876, p. 340 ; Inglis, ibid. 1877, p. 46 ; Butler & Hume, t. c. pp. 212, 213 ; Sharpe, 
Ibis, 1877, p. 24; Tweeddale, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 550; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 155. 
Scolopax indica , Licht. Nomencl. p. 93 (1854, nec Hodgs.). 
Gallinago horsfieldi (Gr.), Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 407; Hume, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 182. 
Gallinago stlienura (Kuhl), Le Messurier, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 380; Hume, ibid. (List B. of 
Tenass.), 1878, p. 459 ; Davidson &Wender, ibid. vii. p. 88 ; Ball, t. c. p. 320 ; Cripps, t. c. 
p. 301 ; Hume, ibid. 1879 (List B. Malay Pen.), p. 69 ; id. t. c. (List B. of India), p. 112. 
Ilorsfield’s Indian Snipe, Kelaart ; The Indian Snipe of some ; Snipe, Sportsmen in Ceylon. 
Boorkat Gardung, Malay; Sekadidi , Sumatra; Burchet, Java (Ilorsf.); Narsya Snip, 
Dutch in Ceylon (MacVicar) ; Ulan kuruvi, Ceylonese Tamils ; also Kora Kota, Coolies 
in Central Prov. 
Kceswatuwa, Sinhalese. 
Adult male and female. Length 9 - 5 to 105 inches ; wing 5 - 2 to 5 - 5 ; tail 1*8 ; tarsus 1*25 to 1*3 ; middle toe and 
claw 1*5 to 1-55 ; bill at front 2'3 to 2-65, average 2-4 to 2’5. “ Average weight 4 oz. 3 drachms ” (Parker, Str. 
Feath. ii. p. 335). 
Females are the larger of the two sexes. 
Iris deep brown ; bill, upper mandible blackish, paling to dark olive at the tip, lower basal half olive-green, darkening 
to brownish at the tip ; legs and feet olive-green, some darker than others. 
Crown, occiput, interscapulars, and scapulars velvet-black ; the face, throat, supercilium, mesial head-stripe, broad lateral 
edges of upper back, and scapulars buff ; scapulars boldly barred and striped and the head-feathers tipped with 
rich rufous ; hind neck, back, and wing-coverts blackish brown, the former v ith margins, and the back and coverts 
with bars and tips of oehraceous grey and buff-whitish ; least wing-coverts narrowly edged pale ; primaries and 
their coverts and the secondaries dark brown, the primary-coverts and secondaries tipped with white ; tertials 
barred with rich brown and fulvous yellow ; tail with the broad feathers black, crossed by a wide subterminal band 
of rufous-yellow, and tipped with whitish, the stiff lateral feathers (usually six on each side) brown, with white tips ; a 
* Although this specific name was originally spelt sthenura, it is incorrect, as the idea of narrowness in the lateral 
tail-feathers, and not strength, is meant to be implied. Srerts, meaning “narrow” (in contradistinction to aOevos, 
strength), indicates the correct spelling. 
