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 Scolopax capensis Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 246.

 Rostratula capensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 683; Hand-List (1899), 1, 167; Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 293, fig. 67; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 68; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 29.

Pa-co′-bo, Manila.

Catanduanes (Whitehead); Leyte (Everett); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Mindanao (Murray, Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester); Panay (Bourns & Worcester); Samar (Steere Exp., Whitehead); Sibuyan (McGregor); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester). Africa, Indian Peninsula, Greater Sunda Islands; Burmese provinces to China and Japan south to Malay Peninsula.

“Adult female.—Above ashy brown, strongly glossed with olive-green, freckled all over with transverse lines of dusky blackish, with here and there broader bars of greenish black; some of the scapular feathers edged with bright ocherous forming a streak down each side of the back; long inner coverts pure white, forming another streak, generally concealed by the scapulars; wing-coverts distinctly glossed with olive-green and finely barred with dusky; alula, primary-coverts, and quills pearly gray, freckled with irregular wavy lines of black, and ocellated ovate spots of rich ocherous on outer web, and with bars of the same color on inner web; all the quills marked with black at base of outer web, more distinctly seen in the primaries than the secondaries; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail pearly gray, with black cross-lines, rump with a few white spots, upper tail-coverts spotted with rich ocherous, tail-feathers barred with ocherous; crown dusky, slightly glossed with olive-green, a band of ocherous down the center, bordered on each side by a shade of black; round eye a cincture of isabelline whitish, reaching to a point above ear-coverts, and surrounded by a blackish shade above and below, more broadly in front; lores, sides of face, and throat, deep chestnut, extending backwards round hind neck; across fore neck a broad collar of greenish black; remainder of under surface white, extending upwards on either side of the black præ-pectoral band; on each side of upper part of breast a black patch with a slight greenish gloss, succeeded by some brown feathers waved with dusky lines; axillars and under wing-coverts white, outer ones ashy, freckled with dusky cross-lines and small spots of white or buff. ‘Bill greenish, yellowish fleshy at the tip of both mandibles; feet pale green; iris dark brown.’ (Butler.) Length, 229; culmen, 47; wing, 140; tail, 42; tarsus, 43.

“Adult male.—Different from the female and rather smaller. Easily distinguished from the female by the absence of chestnut on the throat and neck, and by the different color of the wing-coverts. The latter, instead of being olive-green barred with blackish cross-lines, are bronzy olive, with numerous bar-like spots of yellow-ocher, these spots having a black line above and below; the inner secondaries similarly colored and marked. Although there is a line of sandy buff on each side of the back, there are apparently no white parapteral plumes. Instead of the chestnut on the throat, the latter is white with dusky spots on the upper part, the lower throat light brown, mottled with dusky bars and whitish margins to the feathers, the lower border of this dusky patch edged with a band of black. ‘Bill purplish brown; feet dull slaty blue; iris dark brown.’ (S. Stafford Allen.) Length, 229; culmen, 49; wing, 127; tail, 41; tarsus, 43.

“Young male.—Resembles the old male almost exactly, but has the throat entirely white, the lower throat and fore neck washed with brown, with some dusky streaks; these streaks on the full-grown male are sometimes black, but the feathers of the back and scapulars have spots or margins of white.

“Young female.—Is at first like the young male and has the same yellow-spotted wing-coverts; the hind neck is gray, vermiculated with dusky like the male, and the markings on the throat are similar to those of the latter sex. When the chestnut color is first assumed, it is of a dull tint, and is obscured by dusky margins to the feathers; the chin is white, and the throat and fore neck uniform brown, with which the chestnut feathers are often mingled.” (Sharpe.)

“Fairly abundant about the rice-fields. Easy to bring down on account of its comparatively slow and heavy flight. Resident in the Philippines. We obtained its nest and eggs in Siquijor.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)