LIMNOCRYPTES. LIMICOLA , 167 



Limnocryptes gallinula. JACK SNIPE. 



Scolopax Gallinula, Linnaus, S. N. i. p. 244 



(1766). 

 Scolopax gallinula, Naum. viii. p. 344, xiii. p. 246 ; Ma 



iv. p. 380; Hewitson, p. 355; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 33; 



id. ed. 3, iii. p. 39. 

 Gallinago gallinula, Gray, p. 174; Harting, p. 52; Dresser, 



vii. p. 653. 



Limnocryptes gallinula, Gould, iv. pi. 80. 

 The Jack Snipe, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 611. 



Gallinula = a Chicken ; diminutive of galllna = a Hen. Of. Grallinago t 



Common in winter in the British Islands. Breeds in 

 Northern Europe and Asia, migrating in winter to India 

 and Northern Africa. 



Genus LIMICOLA, Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. i. p. 316 

 (1816). 



Limicdla living in muddy places ; from limus and colo. 



Limicola platyrhyncha. BEOAD-BILLED SAND- 



PIPEE. 



Tringaplatyrincha (misprint), Temminck, Man. d'Orn. 

 p. 398 (1815). 



Limicola pygmsea, Naum. viii. p. 271, xiii. p. 245; Gould, 



iv. pi. 75. 

 Tringa platyrhyncha, Macg. iv. p. 224; Hewitson, p. 359; 



Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 61; id. ed. 3, iii. p 65; Harting, 



p. 141. 



Tringa pygmsea, Gray, p. 170. 

 Limicola platyrhyncha, Dresser, viii. p. 3. 

 The Broad-billed Sandpiper, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 638. 



Platyrhyncha = broad-billed ; from TrXarus + pvyxos. 



A rare straggler to the British Islands. Breeds in Northern 

 Europe. Found in winter in North Africa and India. 



