214 CHARADRIID^E. 



Linmocryptes gallinula. JACK SNIPE. 



Scolopax gallmula Linrueus, Syst. Xat. 12th ed. i. 1766, 

 p. 244 : France. 



Limnocryptes gallinula (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st eel. 1883, 



p. 167 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 66-5. 

 Gallinago gallinula Sounders, Manual, 2nd eel. 1899, p. 575. 

 Gallinfda=& Chicken ; dimunitive of galllna=& Hen. Cf. Gallinago. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bird of Passage and 

 a Winter Visitor, generally distributed, arriving from about 

 the middle of September to the middle of October and 

 departing towards the end of March and in April. Oc- 

 casionally a few remain throughout the summer, but the 

 species has never been proved to nest in our Islands. 



General Distribution. The Jack Snipe breeds in the 

 northern parts of Europe and Asia, most plentifully above the 

 Arctic Circle from northern Scandinavia, Lapland, Finland, 

 and Russia ; eastwards to the Taimyr 'Peninsula and the 

 Kolyma River, in Siberia ; southwards its breeding-range 

 is said to extend to Poland, the Governments of Orel and 

 Perm in Russia, and Tomsk, in western Siberia. It is also 

 reported to breed in Holstein, Pomerania, Silesia, and 

 Bavaria. In winter it visits the Mediterranean, north Africa, 

 Abyssinia, Persia, Afghanistan, India, Ceylon, and Burma. 

 It is occasional in Japan and Formosa, and accidental in 

 the Faeroes. 



Genus LIMICOLA Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. 1816, p. 31G. 

 Type : L. falctnellus Pontopp. 



Limlcola=]iving in muddy places, one that hauntsmud; from limus andcolcre. 



Limicola falcinellus. BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER. 



Scolopax falcinellUS PontoppidaH, Danske Atlas, i. 

 1763, p. 623 : Denmark. 



Limicola pktyrhyncha (Tenim.) ; B. O. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, 

 p. 167 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 612 ; 

 Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 577. 



