Identifier: geographicaldis00seeb (find matches)
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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immaturity are frequently found on the hind neck and on the primaries. The adult male resembles the young female in first plumage, except that the wing-coverts are coloured as has already been described as peculiar to male birds, and theprimaries as has been described as peculiar to adult birds. Young males in first plumagehave buff bars across the inner webs of the primaries (as in the same plumage of thefemale), and the buff patches on the wing-coverts (peculiar to males) appear also on thescapulars and tertials; they get adult scapulars and tertials at their first moult, butthe buff bars across. the inner webs of the primaries do not appear to be lost untilthe second moult, and even then pale traces of them are often visible. RHYNCH^EA AUSTRALIS. AUSTRALIAN PAINTED SNIPE. Diagnosis. Rhynch^a magnitudine magna (alse circa 125 millim.) : cauda fere integra : prirnarise octavtepogonio externo non nisi duabus maculis fulvis ornato. Variations. No local races of this species are known.
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J. G Keuleman lilh Hanharl imp RHYNCJLEA SEMICOLLARIS SOUTH AMERICAN PAINTED SNIPE. RHYXCILEA.Rhynchaea australis, Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1837, p. 155. 459 Plates.—Gould, Birds of Australia, vi. pi. 41.Habits.—Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 274.Eggs.—Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1886, p. 1060. The Australian Painted Snipe differs externally from its Asiatic and African ally invery slight details. It is on an average a larger bird, but its tarsus and middle toe arenot quite so long. The only difference in colour that I have been able to discover is thatin the continental species there are more buff spots on the outer webs of the primariesthan is the case with the island species. For example, on the outer web of the eighthprimary :— JR. capensis has two buff patches in the black base, and two in grey above it. B. australis has only one buff patch in the black base, and only one in the greyabove it. The Australian Painted Snipe is generally distributed throughout the contine

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