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Back, black; primaries, plain ; inner scapulars, black, with a buff margin ; rump, 
dark brown, barred with white ; lower part and upper tail coverts, rufous, barred 
with brown. Middle tail feathers black, terminated with chestnut, a wavy black 
bar and a whitish tip The lateral feathers are ashy, barred with brown and 
tipped; white chest and breast fulvou®, mottled with black, sides of the body, 
fulvous, bajred with black. Belly and thighs, dull white, barred brown; under¬ 
tail coverts, fulvous and white, barred brown. Eighteen tail feathers, the six 
middle ones toft and broad, the outer ones stiffer diminishing in width and 
length. Length, 12 inches; wing, 5j inches; tail, 2 inches ; bill, inches. 
Bill, brown; irides, brown; legs, slaty green; weight, 6 oz. 
THE SOLITARY SNIPE. 
Gallinago Solitaria .—Native name: Chaha (general Hindustani name for 
all Snipe). 
Habitat .—The Himalayas, from Kashmir to Assam. 
Description .—This snipe difk rs from the wood snipe, in having the upper 
plumage delicately marked and cross barred throughout, the pale markings being 
nearly white; and there are none of the large black patches on the back and 
