212 CHARADRIID^E. 



from Persia to south China. Accidental in the Faeroes, 

 Newfoundland, and on the Atlantic shores of the United 

 States. 



Genus GALLINAGrO Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. 1816, p. 312. 

 Type : G. gallinago (Linn.). 



Gallindgo, from gallina=a, Hen, feminine of an obsolete adjective galllnus,. 

 from gallus a, Cock. 



G-allinago gallinago. COMMON SNIPE. 



Scolopax gallinago Liiuwus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 147: 

 Sweden. 



Gallinago cselestis (Frenz.} B. O. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 166 ; 



Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 573. 

 Gallinago gallinago (Linn.) ; Sliarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, 



p. 633. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Resident : also a 

 Bird of Passage and Winter Visitor, its movements being 

 greatly influenced by weather. As a breeding-species it is 

 widely and generally distributed in suitable areas, except 

 in the more southern counties of England. Its numbers 

 appear to be steadily increasing. 



General Distribution. The Common Snipe breeds in Europe 

 and Asia ; in Iceland, the Faeroes, and from Scandinavia 

 south of 70 N. latitude, eastwards throughout Siberia. Its 

 southern breeding- range is chiefly confined to the mountains 

 and includes the southern slopes of the Alps, north Italy, 

 south .Russia, Turkestan, Yarkand, and south-east Mongolia. 

 Small numbers also breed in the Azores, north-west Africa, 

 and India. In winter it visits Africa, south to Senegambia 

 on the west and Abyssinia on the east, Arabia, Sokotra, 

 southern Asia, Japan, Formosa, and the Philippine Islands, 

 extending to the Moluccas. It is accidental in Greenland, 



