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Title: The game-birds of India, Burma and Ceylon
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Baker, E. C. Stuart (Edward Charles Stuart), 1864-1944
Subjects: Birds Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, Bombay Natural History Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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w, though bothmandibles are grooved. The eyes, though very large and snipe-like,are placed well forward; the legs are rather long and very sturdy,the toes long, and the tibia naked for some distance above the joint. The general plumage is more lax than in the snipes, and thewings are broad, but rather short. The tail contains fourteen feathers.The sexes are quite different in plumage, whilst the windpipe of thefemale Painter is longer than that of the male, and curves into onefull loop. The genus contains three species, our Indian bird, which alsoextends to Africa, and two others which inhabit Australia and SouthAmerica respectively. The sportsman can confound the Painted Snipe with no otherbird ; for, as soon as it is in his hand, he sees that it is a snipeor snippet of some kind with wonderfully painted plumage ; andthere is no other species of the Charadriidse which can comp£;,re withit in colouration, though some of the sandpipers in their rufousbreedmg plumage are very handsome.
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< o ROSTRATULA CAPENSIS 121 ROSTRATULA CAPENSIS. THE PAINTED SNIPE. Scolopax capensis, Linn, S. N. i, p. 246 (1766). Rostratula capensis, Vieill, Nouv. Die. (VHixt. Nal. vii, p. 1; Sharpr, Cat. B. M. xxiv, p. 683 ; id. Eand-L. i, p. 167; Oatrs, Gamc-B. ii, p. 489 ; Finn, In. Waders, p. 155 ; Blanfovd Avifauna, B. I. iii, p. 293 ; Stuart Baker, J. B. N. E. S. xii, p. 501; Bourdillon, ibid, xvi, p. 10; Macdonald, ibid, xvii, p. 500; Oate.% Cat. Eqga B. M. ii, p. 68; il/o.s.s King, J. B. N. H. S. xxi, p. 102 ; Pitman, ibid. p. 666 ; Williamson, Jour. N. H. Siam, i, p. 48 ; Barton, ibid. p. 109 ; Herbert, ibid. p. 54 (1914); Gijldenstolpe, Swedish E.r. to Siam, p. 147 (1916); Wait, Spolia Zeylanica, x. p. 237.Rhynchoea capensis, Butler, S. F. ix, p. 428; Lcgge, B. of Ceij. p. 800; Reid, S. F. ix, p. 69; Hawkins, ibid. p. 172; Davidson, ibid. p. 320; Gates, B. of B. B. ii, p. 386; Hume, S. F. xi, p. 322; Seebohm, Charadriida;, p. 456; Gates, Humes Nests and Eggs, iii, p. 350; Munn. Ibis

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