. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. SCOLOPAX, 47i). SCOLOPAX MEGALA. SiriNHOB'S SNIPE. SeoLOPAX rectricibus viginti: quarum duodecim angustse suut (4 ad 8 millim. No local races of this species are known. Diagnosis. Variations. Gallinago megala^ Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861^ p. 3J 3. Gallinago heteroeaca, Cabanis, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 317. Scolopax megala {Swinhue), Rosenb. Malay Archip. p. 278 (1878). Plates.—Unfigured. Habits.—Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 66. Eggs.—Dybowski, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 104. Synonym)'. Li
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. SCOLOPAX, 47i). SCOLOPAX MEGALA. SiriNHOB'S SNIPE. SeoLOPAX rectricibus viginti: quarum duodecim angustse suut (4 ad 8 millim. No local races of this species are known. Diagnosis. Variations. Gallinago megala^ Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861^ p. 3J 3. Gallinago heteroeaca, Cabanis, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 317. Scolopax megala {Swinhue), Rosenb. Malay Archip. p. 278 (1878). Plates.—Unfigured. Habits.—Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 66. Eggs.—Dybowski, Journ. Orn. 1873, p. 104. Synonym)'. Literature. Swinhoe's Snipe may be most easily recognized by its tail. It has 12 feathers (6 on Specific each side) which vary from '15 to "3 inch in width, in addition to the eight central characters. feathers (making 20 altogether). It is a slightly larger bird than the Pintail Snipe, but is not so large as Latham's Snipe, the len^tA of wing varying from 5-4 to 5'6 inch. So far as I know there is no diflPerence of any kind in the colour or pattern of colour between this species and several of its allies. They only differ in dimensions and in the number and shape of the outer tail-feathers. It breeds in South-east Siberia from Lake Baikal to the north island of Japan, and, passing through China on migration, winters in the islands of the Malay Archipelago. Geographi- cal distribu- Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London : H. Sotheran
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