"Extremely abundant in rice-fields at certain seasons." (Bourns and Worcester MS.) 123. GALLINAGO GALLINAGO (Linnæus). FANTAIL SNIPE. Scolopax gallinago Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 147. Gallinago gallinago Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 633; Hand-List (1899), 1, 165; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 61; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 29. Gallinago coelestis Oates, Bds. Brit. Burmah (1883), 2, 381. Can-du-ro', Manila and Mindoro. Bohol (Everett); Leyte (Everett); Luzon (Meyer, Everett, Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Mearns); Mindoro (McGregor). Europe to northern Asia; in winter Senegambia and northeastern Africa, Indian Peninsula to Malay Peninsula and the Moluccas. "Male and female.--Crown black with a fulvous streak over median line; a blackish streak from bill to eye, above and below which the feathers are pale fulvous; chin whitish; throat and sides of head and neck fulvous, streaked with black; breast and sides of body fulvous, barred with black; abdomen and vent white; under tail-coverts fulvous, streaked with brown; under wing-coverts barred indistinctly with black and white; tail black, the end rufous mottled with black; upper plumage black, edged and streaked with rich fulvous and chestnut; wing-coverts black, barred with fulvous; quills dark brown, narrowly edged with whitish. Bill fleshy brownish, green for two-thirds of its length from base, remainder horny brown; iris very dark brown; legs and feet brownish green. Length, 267; tail, 61; wing, 127; tarsus, 30; bill from gape, 58." (Oates.) "Adult female.--Similar to the male. Length, 267; culmen, 71; wing, 135; tail, 62; tarsus, 33. "Young.--Differs from the adult in being more rufous, especially on the throat and neck. The black markings of the back are more broken up and mottled with rufous bars, and the pale outer bands along the scapulars are not so wide. Seebohm states that young snipes may be recognized by not having a dark shaft-line on the light tips of the upper wing-coverts, but I have found indications of the latter in quite young birds. "Nestling.--Covered with down of a chestnut color, interspersed with black along the back, and prettily variegated with silvery tips to the feathers; below the eye a whitish streak, bordered with lines of black; under surface of body bright chestnut, with a black spot on the throat and a black line across the fore neck." (Sharpe.)