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Title: The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895 Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, lithographer Hanhart, printer of plates Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Judd & Company, printer of plates Library of Congress, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Charadriidae Shore birds
Publisher: London Manchester : H. Sotheran & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ers. The four outer ones on eachside vary in width from 1 to 25 inch, and are brown, narrowly barred with white. SCOLOPAX. 489 Stricklands Snipe is only known from Chili and Patagonia. It has been found as far GeograpM- south as Cape Horn ; in Valdivia, in south lat. 40° ; and Mr. Berkeley James observed it in °? n 1the market at Valparaiso, which is the most northerly limit of its known range. Stricklands Snipe is very rare in collections. The type is in the British Museum, and Examples very r3.rGs other examples are in the collection of Salvin and Godman, in my own collection, and in theLynn Museum. On the continent it may be seen in the museums at Bremen and Leyden.In its habits it is a Woodcock and not a Snipe. It is described as frequenting dampthick forests or moist bushy lands, and as never seen on open marshy ground. Its egg isalso like that of a Woodcock, having a pale stone-coloured ground, very different from theolive-brown ground-colour of the eggs of the Snipes. §Waa?\
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SCOLOPAX JAMESONI. JAMESONS SNIPE. Scolopax tibiis fere omnino vestitis : rectrienra quatuordceimlateralibus attenuatis (circ. 5 millitn.), Diagnosis.omnibus fasciatis : primariee primse pogonio externo haud fasciato : pectore et abdominealbescentis valde brunneo fasciatis. No local races of this species are known. Variations. 3 a 490 SCOLOPAX. Synonymy. Xylocota jamesoni, Bonap. Compt. Rend. xli. p. 660 (1855). Gallinago jamesoni (Bonap.), Sclater §• Salvin, Exotic Orn. p. 196 (1869).Scolopax jamesoni (Bonap.), Seebohm, Ibis, 1886, p. 130. Literature. Plates .—Unfigured. Habits.—Described by Simons, who met with this species at an elevation of 11,000 feet on theSierra Nevadas, in Colombia, as a very rare and shy bird, dodging amongst the tufts ofgrass in swampy places. Eggs.—Unknown. Specificcharacters. Nearestally. Geographi-cal distrihu-tion. Jamesons Snipe has many characters in common with the Typical Woodcocks, butthe markings on the crown are longitudinal, and there ar

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