ORDER LIMICOL^. 85 



Genus GALLINAGO Leach. 



Gallinago Leach, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mam. & Birds, 18 16, 31. 

 Type, Scolopax 7najor Linn. 



[229.] Gallinago gallinago (Linn.). 



European Snipe. 



Scolopax gallinago Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 147. 

 Gallinago gallinago Licht. Nom. Mus. Berol. 1854, 93. 



[B—C-,R 526,0607.] 



Geog. Dist. — Northern parts of the Old World ; frequent in 

 Greenland, accidental in Bermuda. 



230. Gallinago delicata (Ord). 



Wilson's Snipe. 



Scolopax delicata Ord, Wils. Orn. IX. 1825, p. ccxviii. 

 Gallinago delicata A. O. U. Check-List, 1886, 148. 



[B 523, C 414, R 526^, C 608.] 



Geog. 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 Leach. 



Macrorhamphus Leach, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mam. & B. 18 16, 31. 

 Type, Scolopax grisea Gmel. 



231. Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.). 



Dowitcher. 



Scolopax grisea Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 658. 

 Macrorhamphus griseus Leach, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mam. & B. 

 1816, 31. 



[B 524, 415, R 527, C 609.] 



Geog. 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. 



