AUSTRALIAN PAINTED SNIPE. 
the ‘ merrythought.’ Another female secured had no such peculiar trachea. 
On being dissected it showed clearly to be a female, but it had not only assumed 
the plumage of the male, but had an ordinary trachea.” 
The female figured and described was coUeoted by the late W. Stalker 
in the Northern Territory on April 2nd, 1906. The male described was 
collected on Parry’s Greek, North-west Australia, on March 19th, 1909, by 
Mr. J. P. Rogers. 
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