. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . te ; legs palegreen ; bill terminally for one-third or more of its length deep brown, the restbasally horny brown with a green and yellowish tinge; its length from gape,of males 2*39 to 27 ; at front 243 to 275 ; of females 262 to 3*0 at front,rather flat at the tip. Length, Male.—9 to ii inches; wing 4-9 to 5*5 ; tail 2*5 to 2*8. Femaleslarger. ^a^.—Throughout India, Ceylon and Burmah as a winter visitant, alsoPersia, Beloochistan and Afghanistan. Arrives in
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . te ; legs palegreen ; bill terminally for one-third or more of its length deep brown, the restbasally horny brown with a green and yellowish tinge; its length from gape,of males 2*39 to 27 ; at front 243 to 275 ; of females 262 to 3*0 at front,rather flat at the tip. Length, Male.—9 to ii inches; wing 4-9 to 5*5 ; tail 2*5 to 2*8. Femaleslarger. ^a^.—Throughout India, Ceylon and Burmah as a winter visitant, alsoPersia, Beloochistan and Afghanistan. Arrives in Sind about the beginning ofSeptember and leaves in April, and with the Jack Snipe is tolerably abundanteverywhere. It is a very vigilant bird, and in consequence difficult to shoot,especially in bogs and moist localities where rushes are present. In suchretreats, three, four or half-a-dozen may be seen at a time, walking leisurely,with head erect, and constantly on the alert; and at the first note of alarm,they rise, and soon get out of gunshot. This species, it need hardly be men-tioned, is held in much esteem for the ^.i^S Gallinago gallinula. The Jud-Cock. RHYNCH^A. 127 155. GallinagO gallinula {Linn:), Jerd., B. Ind. iii. p. 676;Hume, Sir. F. iii. 182 ; Blylh, B. Burnt, p. 157; Dav. et Oust. Ois Chine^p. 479; Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 653; Htime and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 459;Crtpps, Sir. F. vii. p. 302; Hume, Sir. i^. viii. p. ii2; Legge, B. Ceylonp. 828; Hume and Marsh., Game Birds iii. p 373, pi.; Hume, Sir. F. 239 (note); Oaks, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 384; Murray, Vert. Zool., Sind,p. 241; Murray, Avif Brit. Ind. ii. p. 608, No. 1286. Scolopax gallinula, Syst. Nat. i. p. 244.—The Jack Snipe or Jud-Cock. Crown of the head with a mesial longitudinal black streak from the top ofthe upper mandible; on each side of this a yellowish or cream-colouredstreak extending above the eye as a superciliary, and in some specimensseparated from the orbital region by a
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