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UTILITY. 
It is a bird used for food and its flesh is not inferior to that of the 
last species. 
150) RHYNCHAEA CAPENSIS, L. 
(TAMASHIGI.) (PAINTED SNIPE.) 
GeALL.\E.-SCOLOPACIDAE. 
WHEEE FOUND. 
It is a native of Japan and inhabits mountains. 
CHAKACTEKISTICS. 
The male and female differ in the color of the plumage. In all birds, it is 
only with this species that the female is more brilliantly colored than the male. 
It feeds always upon insects and mollusks in the neighborhood of lakes, marshes 
and small streams. It is weak in the wings and cannot fly to any great distance. 
UTILITY. 
It is an important species among the birds used for food and its flesh is 
delicious, 
(51) SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA, L. 
(BOTOSHIGI.) (WOOD-COCK.) 
GeALLAE. -ScOLOPACIDAE. 
WHEEE FOUND. 
It is a native of Japan and inhabits mountains. 
CHAEACTEEISTICS. 
Both sexes are alike in the color of the plumage. The flight is not so 
weak as that of the last species. In the summer it retires to the Hokkaido and 
farther northward and returns to the southern part of Japan from the beginning 
of the autnmn. 
It lives mostly in forests and bamboo-bushes, and feeds upon insects, snails 
etc. It avoids the direct rays of the sun and likes shady places near precipices 
or in bushes. It lives in flocks of several tens, or in pairs. It walks always 
slowly and never runs. 
UTILITY. 
It is an important species among the birds for food and supplies a large 
(|uantity of delicious meat. 
