110 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
GENUS PHILOHELA Gray. 
Philohela Gray, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, 1841, 90. Type, by orig. desig., 
Scolopax minor GMELIN. 
Philéhela minor (GMELIN). Woodcock. [228]. 
Scolopax minor GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 661. (New York.) 
RanGe.— Eastern North America. Breeds from northeastern 
North Dakota, southern Manitoba, northern Michigan, southern 
Quebec, and Nova Scotia south to southern Kansas, southern Louisi- 
ana, and northern Florida; winters from southern Missouri, the Ohio 
Valley, and New Jersey (rarely Massachusetts) south to Texas and 
southern Florida; ranges casually to Saskatchewan, Keewatin, Colo- 
rado, Newfoundland, and Bermuda. 
GENUS GALLINAGO Kocu. 
Gallinago Kocu, Syst. Baier. Zool., 1816, 312. Type, by tautonymy, 
Gallinago media Kocu = Scolopazx gallinago LINN&US. 
[Gallinégo gallinago (LINNmUs). European Snipe. [229.] 
Scolopaz gallinago Linnzxus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 147. (Sweden.) 
Ranee.— Northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in 
Great Britain, Iceland, northern Europe, and Siberia to latitude 
70°, and in mountains of Europe and Asia; winters in Great Britain, 
southern Europe, northern Africa, India, China, and the Philippines; 
casual in Greenland; accidental in Bermuda.] 
Gallinago delicéta (OrD). Wilson’s Snipe. ([230.] 
Scolopax delicata Orv, Reprint of Wiuson’s Orn., IX, 1825, cexviii. 
(Pennsylvania. ) 
Rance.— North America and northern South America. Breeds 
from northwestern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, 
and northern Ungava south to northern California, southern Colo- 
rado, northern Iowa, northern Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; 
