330 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Genus Scolopax. 
tween the Himalayan and Japanese Solitary Snipes may be 
expressed as follows :— 
Scolopax solitaria. Scolopax japonica. 
Lower breast white, with no bars. Lower breast white, barred with 
brown. 
Pale dorsal stripes very broad. Pale dorsal stripes very narrow. 
Primaries marbled towards the tip. Primaries plain throughout. 
Japanese examples appear to be constant, as are all the 
Turkestan examples that I have seen; but in India slightly 
intermediate forms are found. 
9. Scolopax stricklandi. 
Stricklands Snipe is said to be a forest bird, inhabiting 
Chili and Patagonia. It resembles the two preceding species 
very closely, but may be distinguished in a moment by the 
fact that wherever they are white it is buff in colour. 
10 . Scolopax jamesoni. 
Jameson's Snipe is a resident in the mountain plateaux of 
the northern Andes, where it breeds at an elevation of ten or 
twelve thousand feet, in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and 
Bolivia. In appearance it is somewhat intermediate be¬ 
tween its two allies S. nemoricola and S. imperialis. It 
agrees with the former in the general colour of its plumage 
(which might almost be called grey when compared with the 
rich chestnut so characteristic of the latter), whilst it resem¬ 
bles its near neighbour in the size of its bill—3J inches 
instead of 2} inches. 
11 . Scolopax imperialis. 
The Imperial Snipe is only known from a single Bogota 
skin which looks like a rufous phase of the last-mentioned 
species, within the limits of the range of which it was found. 
12. Scolopax aucklandica. 
The Auckland Snipe has occurred in New Zealand near the 
town of Auckland; on the Chatham Islands, rather less than a 
thousand miles to the south-east; and on Auckland Island, 
rather more than a thousand miles to the south-west. It is 
probably a mere coincidence that its island life has dwarfed it 
