166 SCOLOPACID^. 



Gallinago caelestis. COMMON SNIPE. 



Scolopax caelestis, /. 8. T. Frenzel, Beschreib. der 

 Vogel u. ihrer Eier in d. Geg. v. Wittenberg, p. 58 

 (1801). 



Scolopax gall in a go, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 244 (1766). 



Scolopax gallinago, Naum. viii. p. 310 ; Macg. iv. p. 368 ; 



Hewitson, p. 353 ; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 25 ; id. ed. 3, 



iii. p. 31. 



Gallinago media, Gray, p. 173; Harting, p. 51. 

 Gallinago scolopacina, Gould, iv. pi. 79. 

 Gallinago ccelestis, Dresser, vii. p. 641. 

 The Common Snipe, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 603. 



Ccelestis = pertaining to or coming from heaven, c&lum. The Snipe was 

 called by the older authors Capella ccelestis, from its imitating the voice of a 

 goat (capella) in its " drumming " during the breeding-season (see Klein, Hist. 

 Av. Prodr. p. 100, 1750). 



Common throughout the British Islands, and also in 

 Europe and Asia, and in winter as far south as North 

 Africa, Ceylon, and the Philippine Islands. 



[Gallinago sabini is merely a melansim of the present 

 species.] 



[Gallinago wilsoni. WILSON'S 

 Scolopax Wilsoni i, Temminck, Planches Coloriees, 



v. livr. 68, note in text to plate 403 (1826). 

 Gallinago wilsoni, Harting, p. 143. 



Wilsoni, in honour of Alexander Wilson, the American ornithologist (born 

 in 1766, died in 1813). 



One is said to have been shot at Taplow Court, Bucks, 

 August 1, 1863. It inhabits North America, extending south- 

 wards in winter to the northern parts of South America.] 



Genus LIMNOCRYPTES, Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 118 



(1829). 



Limnocryptes ; from Mpvri = a lake, and KPVTTTU = I hide, 



