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. 



Philohela 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, Keevratin, Colo- 

 rado, Newfoundland, and Bermuda. 



GENUS GALLINAGO KOCH. 



Gallinago KOCH, Syst. Baier. Zool., 1816, 312. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Gallinago media KOCH = Scolopax gallinago LINNAEUS. 



[Gallinago gallinago (LINNAEUS). European Snipe. [229.] 



Scolopax gallinago LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 147. (Sweden.) 



RANGE. 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 delicata (ORD). Wilson's Snipe. [230.] 



Scolopax delicata ORD, Reprint of WILSON'S Orn., IX, 1825, ccxviii. 

 (Pennsylvania.) 



RANGE. 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; 



