SCOLOPACID.E. 353 



Genus SCOLOPAX. 

 Brisson, Orn. v. p. 2U2 (1700). 



Scolopax rasticxila. 



Scclopax rusticula, Linnaeus, Syst. Zs^at. i. p. 243(1700); B. 0. U. 



List Brit. B. p. 105 (1883). 

 Scolopax rusticola, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 231 (1885). 



The Common Woodcock. 



Hah. Europe and XortLern Asia, wintering to the southward. 



1749. Skeleton : mounted. O.C 1292 b. YarrM Collection. 



1750. Skull. 0. C. 1292G. Purchased. 



1751. Cranium. 0. 0. 1292 H. . Stores. 



1752, 1753. Sternum and sacrum. 0. C. 1292 c, 1292 d. 



Ihinterian. 



Genus PHILOHELA. 

 Gray, List Gen. B. 1811, p. 9U. 



Philohela minor *. 



Scolopax minor, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. 2, p. 001 (1788), 

 Philohela minor (Gm,), A. 0. U. Check-list N. Am. B. p. 147 

 (1880). 



The American Woodcock. 



Hab. North America. 



1754. Sternum. 0. C. 1292 x. 



Presented hjj the Smithsonian Tnstitution. 



1755. Sternum, with right and left coracoids and furcula. S. S. 



995. Presented hij P. L. Sclater, Esq., F.R.S. 



* Cf. Shufeldt, Journ. Anat. & Phvs., Oct. 1884 (description and figure 

 of skull). 



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