Order CHARADRIIF0RME8 
No. 208. 
Family 8C0L0PAGIDM 
DITELMATIAS HARDWICKII. 
EAST AUSTRALIAN SNIPE. 
(Plate 166 .)* 
ScoLOPAX HARDWICKH Gray, Zool. Miscel., p. 16, 1831 ; Tasmania. 
Scolopax australis Latham (not Scopoli), Index Omith., Suppl., p. Ixv., 1801 (New South 
Wales); Gould, Birds Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 40, 1848; Sturt, Narr. Exp. Centr. 
Austr., App., p. 50, 1849 ; Biggies, Birds Austr., Vol. II., pi. 100, fig. i., 1877 ; 
Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 473, 1877. 
Totanus australis Stephens, in Shaw’s Gen. Zool., Vol. XII., pt. i., p. 150, 1824. 
Scolopax hardwickii Gray, Zool. Miscel., p. 16, 1831. 
Gallinago australis id.. List Spec. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. m., p. Ill, 1844 ; Gould, Handb. 
Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 271, 1865 ; Ramsay, Ibis 1866, p. 334 ; id., Proc. Linn. 
Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I,, p, 190, 1877 ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 339 ; 
id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1888 ; Legge, Papers and Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm. 
1887, p. 93, 1888 ; Cox and Hamilton, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Ser. II., Vol. IV., 
p. 420, 1889 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 942, 1892 ; 
Sharpe, Cat Birds Brit. Mus,, Vol. XXIV., p. 652, 1896 ; North, Birds County 
Cumberl., p. 112, 1898; Cheeseman, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1898, Vol. XXXI., 
p. 105, 1899 ; Keartland, Birds Melb. Distr., p. 116, 1900 ; Campbell, Nests and 
Eggs Austr. Birds, p, 822, 1901 ; Mattingley, Emu, Vol. I., p. 149, 1902 ; Legge, 
ib., Vol. IV., p. 104, 1905 ; Bryant, ih., Vol, V., p. 24, 1905 ; HaU, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 87, 1906 ; Ingram, Ibis 1908, p. 165 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 28, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 145, 1910, 
Gallinago australis australis Mathews, Nov. Zool,, Vol. XVIII., p. 223, 1912. 
Gallinago hardwickii Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. I., p. 188, 1913. 
Distribution. Japan (breeding), migrating southward to Austraha and Tasmania in 
winter (New Zealand). 
Adult male. General colour above dark brown, the feathers everywhere barred and 
mottled or margined with ochreous-buff ; head black, divided in the middle and 
skirted on each side by sandy-buff, this latter colour more intense on the hind-neck, 
where it almost obliterates the dark portion of the feathers ; lesser upper wing- 
coverts dark brown, very narrowly fringed with white at the tips ; median and 
greater coverts barred and tipped with ochreous-buff ; bastard-wing and primary- 
coverts dark brown tipped with white ; primary- and secondary-quiUs dark brown 
* The Plate is lettered Gallinago australis. 
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