BIRDS OF XORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 171 



David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 1877, 478. — Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1877, 703 (Luzon).— Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 222 (Japan); 

 Birds Japan, 1882, 114.— Prjevalsky, in Rowley's Orn. Misc., iii, 1878, 90 

 (Koko-nor, March; Lake Hanka, April; Iloang-ho Valley; Kansu, Sept.). — 

 Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 27 (Hakodate; crit.), 156 (Yenesei, Siberia; crit.). — 

 Legge, Birds Ceylon, 1880, 121.— Scully, Ibis, 1881, 588 (Gilgit, n. India).— 

 Kelham, Ibis, 1882, 16 (Malay Peninsula). — Murray, Vertebr. Faun. Sind, 

 1884, 240. — Blakiston, Amended List Birds Japan, 1884, 12. — Marshall, 

 Ibis, 1884, 424 (Chamba, n. w. Himalayas).- Sharpe, Sci. Res. 2nd Yarkand 

 Miss., Aves, 1891, 144.— Madarasz, Erlaut. Ausst. Ungar. Vogelf., 1891, 111. 

 — Frivaldsky, Av. Hung., 1891, 149. — Fatio and Studer, Cat. distr. Ois. 

 Suisse, 1892, 46.— Martin and Rollin, Vertebr. Sauv. I'Indre, 1894, 200. 



[Gallinago] scolopacina Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 52, no. 10329. 



G[allinago] scolopacina Swinhoe, Ibis, 1873, 426 (Shanghai). 



G[allmago] sakhalina (not Scolopax sakhalina Vieillot?) Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 

 583. 



G[allinago] burka Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 583 (ex Bonaparte, manuscript?). 



[Gallinago] bwka Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 579 (ex Latham; cites 

 uniclavata Hodgs. and media Hodgs. as synonyms). 



Gallinago burka Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 314 (China); 1871, 407 

 (China, Formosa, and Hainan, in winter). 



Gallinago migratoria Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 291 (cites Telmatias gallinago 

 Boie.) 



Gallinago brachypus Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 291. 



Telmatias brachypiLS Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 307. 



Gallinago robusta Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 291. 



Telmatias robusta Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 306. 



Gallinago petenyi Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 291. 



Telmatias petenyi Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 306. 



Gallinago lacustris Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, 291. 



Telmatias lacustris Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 307. 



Telmatias salicaria Brehm, Vogelf., 1855, 306 (Germany). 



[Gallinago] japonica Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 579. 



Gallinago stcnura (not Scolopax stenura Kuhl) Cassin, Orn. Perry's Japan Exped., 

 ii, 1857, 227. 



Gallinago latipennis Hartlaub, Orn. West-Afiika, 1857, 239 (Gambia). 



Gallinago vulgaris Dubois, PI. Col. Ois, Belg., 1858, pi. 182. 



Gallinago russata Gould, Birds Great Brit., iv, 1863, in text to pi. 79 (Dartmoor, 

 England); Introd. 1873, p. cxviii. 



Gallinago ivilsoni (not Scolopax ivilsoni Temmiiick) Swinhoe, Ibis, 1875, 454 

 (Hakodate, Japan). — Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, 27 (crit). — Blakiston, Amended 

 List Birds Japan, 1884, 38. 



GALLINAGO DELICATA (Ord). 



WILSON'S SNIPE. 



Very similar to G. gallinafio but rectrices 16 instead of 14, the 

 lateral pair much narrower and more distinctly barred, and axillars 

 and under wing-coverts heavily and regularly barred with dusky or 

 deep slate color. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum with a narrow median stripa of pale 

 buff or dull buffy white and two broad lateral stripes of sooty black 

 more or less streaked or flecked with pale buffy brown, the dark 



