CHAP. XVIII.] 



BIRDS. 



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FAMILY 100. SCOLOPACID^E. (21 Genera, 121 Species.) 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION. 



The Scolopacidse, comprehending the Snipes, Sandpipers, Cur- 

 lews, and allied genera, are perhaps as truly cosmopolitan as 

 any family of birds, ranging to the extreme north and visiting 

 the remotest islands. The genera of universal distribution are 

 the following : 



Numenius (16 sp.) ; Limosa (6 sp.) ; Totanus (12 sp.) ; Trin- 

 goides, (6 sp.) ; Himantopus (6 sp.) ; Tringa (20 sp.) ; and Galli- 

 nago (24 sp.). Those which have a more or less restricted dis- 

 tribution are : 



IUdorhynM\\ sp.), Central Asia and the Himalayas (Plate 

 VII. Vol. I. p. 331) ; Helodromas (1 sp.), Palsearctic region and 

 North India ; Terekia (1 sp.), East Palsearctic, wandering to 

 India and Australia ; Eecurvirostra (6 sp.), Nearctic region to 

 the High Andes, South Palsearctic, East and South Africa, Hin- 

 dostan, and Australia ; Micropelfyma (1 sp.), North America to 

 Chili ; Machetes (1 sp.), Palsearctic region and Hindostan 

 (Plate I. Vol. I. p. 195) ; Ereunetes (3 sp.), Nearctic and Neo- 

 tropical ; Eurinorhynchus (1 sp.), North-east Asia and Bengal ; 

 Calidris (1 sp.), all regions but Australian ; Macrorhamphus (3 

 sp.), Palsearctic and Nearctic, visits Brazil and India ; Scolopax 

 (4 sp.), the whole Palsearctic region, to India, Java, and Australia ; 

 Philohela (1 sp.), East Nearctic ; Rhynchcea (4 sp.), Ethiopian and 

 Oriental, Australia, and Temperate South America ; Phalaropus 

 (3 sp.), North Temperate zone, and West Coast of America to 

 Chili. 



