ORDER LIMICOLZ. 85 
Genus GALLINAGO Leacu. 
Gallinago Lracu, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mam. & Birds, 1816, 31. 
Type, Scolopax major LINN. 
[229.] Gallinago gallinago (Linw.). 
European Snipe. 
Scolopax gallinago Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 147. 
Gallinago gallinago Licut. Nom. Mus. Berol. 1854, 93. 
[B—, C—, R 526, C 607.] 
Groc. Dist.— Northern parts of the Old World; frequent in 
Greenland, accidental in Bermuda. 
230. Gallinago delicata (Orp). 
Wilson’s Snipe. 
Scolopax delicata ORD, Wits. Orn. IX. 1825, p. cexviii. 
Gallinago delicata A. O. U. Check-List, 1886, 148. 
[B 523, C 414, R 5262, C 608.] 
Geroc. Dist.— North and Middle America, breeding from the 
northern United States northward; south in winter to the West 
Indies and northern South America. 
Genus MACRORHAMPHUS Leacu. 
Macrorhamphus Lracu, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mam. & B. 1816, 31. 
Type, Scolopax grisea GMEL. 
231. Macrorhamphus griseus (GmMEL.). 
Dowitcher. 
Scolopax grisea GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 658. 
Macrorhamphus griseus Leacu, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mam. & B. 
1816, 31. 
[B 524, C 415, R 527, C 609.] 
Geoc. Dist.— Eastern North America, breeding far north; south 
in winter to the West Indies and Brazil. Casual (?) in Alaska 
(Nushagak River), Bermuda, Great Britain, and Europe. 
