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scapulars which characterise the wood snipe. They do not affect cover and may 
often be seen on the margins of streams and pools, and their flight is preciselV 
like that of the pintail snipe, though Jess rapid. Sexes alike. Length, I2i inches- 
^ + 4 - 1Ilc ^ ie .® ; tai £> -i inches ; bill, 2i inches. Bill, yellowish brown, and black 
at the tip; lndes, brown; legs and feet, olive; weight, up to 8 oz. The tail 
feathers vary in number from 18 to 28 ; the middle eight are broad and soft and 
the outer ones narrow, short and stiff. 
THE COMMON OR FAN-TAIL SNIPE. 
Gallinago gallinago Native names: Chaha , Hind.: Bharka, Bharak , 
Nepal; Cheng a paki Heeshnape), Beng. ; Tibud, Panlowa, Mahr. ; Ulan , Tam. ; 
MaySlsniteXBurm^"’ ^ ; Chera ™ a ' AsSam ; Chek ^Manipur; 
Habitat. A winter visior to the entire Indian Peninsula. 
Description. -Sexes alike, and too common to need detailed description. It 
closely.resembles tie pintail except that the outer web of the first primary is 
w ite instead of brown,, and it has white margins to the tips of the outer secon- 
aries, which the pintail often has not, and all the tail feathers are soft and 
proad ; they number fourteen (sometimes sixteen), and the laterals are not narrow 
