SCOLOPACID4—SANDPIPERS. 259 
Distribution : Inhabits Northern and Central Europe and 
Asia, migrating southward in autumn to Northern Africa, and 
in Asia to Ceylon and the Philippines. 
Habitat: Swamps, marshy meadows or moorlands. 
JACK SNIPE. W 
Gallinago gallinula (Zznz.), 
Adult : Crown black, marked with rufous and bordered on 
either side by buff; a broad patch before the eye brown; 
éack and scapulars d/ack and rufous, with purple reflections, 
outer margins of scapulars creamy-buff, forming two bands down 
the back: wings brown, the coverts margined with pale brown 
and white-tipped ; sides of head, chin, breast and abdomen 
white, the two first speckled with brown; throat, chest and 
flanks conspicuously shaded and mottled with brown; axillaries 
white ; bill brown, paler at base ; legs and feet pale brown ; 
irides dark brown. Length 8 inches; culmen 1°6; wing 4 to 
4°5; tarsus (slender) o°8. 
Distribution: Breeds irregularly in the Arctic regions of 
Europe and Asia. In winter frequents the basin of the Mediter- 
ranean, Northern Africa and Southern Asia as far east as 
Burma. A winter visitant to Great Britain. 
Habitat: Very similar to that of G. cedestis. 
Genus LIMICOLA. 
BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 
Limicola platyrhyncha (7Zemm.). 
Adult (Summer) : Above blackish-brown, most of feathers 
margined with chestnut .and a few with white; ~wm, upper 
tail-coverts and two central tail-feathers coloured likethe back ; 
outer rectrices and smaller wing-coverts greyish-brown ; wing- 
quills brown, the secondaries narrowly margined with white ; 
crown blackish tinged with rufous and greyish-white ; safer- 
aliary stripe white, a streak before the eye dark brown ; 
feathers of neck, breast, flanks and under tail-coverts white, 
with brown centres; rest of under parts white; bill dark 
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