ORDER LIMICOL^S. 85 



GENUS GALLINAGO I<EACH. 



Gallinago LEACH, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mam. & Birds, 1816, 31. 

 Type, Scolopax major LINN. 



[229.] Gallinago gallinago (LINN.). 



European Snipe. 



Scolopax gallinago LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 147. 

 Gallinago gallinago LIGHT. Nom. Mus. Berol. 1854, 93. 



[B , C , R526, C 607.] 



GEOG. DIST. Northern parts of the Old World ; frequent in 

 Greenland, accidental in Bermuda. 



230. Gallinago delicata (ORD). 



Wilson's Snipe. 



Scolopax delicata ORD, WILS. Orn. IX. 1825, p. ccxviii. 

 Gallinago delicata A. O. U. Check- List, 1886, 148. 



[B 523, C 414, R 5260, C 608.] 



GEOG. DIST. North and Middle America, breeding from the 

 northern United States northward ; south in winter to the West 

 Indies and northern South America. 



GENUS MACRORHAMPHUS LEACH. 



Macrorhamphus LEACH, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mam. & B. 1816, 31. 

 Type, Scolopax grisea GMEL. 



231. Macrorhamphus griseus (GMEL.). 



Dowitcher. 



Scolopax grisea GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 658. 

 Macrorhamphus griseus LEACH, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mam. & B. 

 1816, 31. 



[B 524, C 415, R 527, C 609.] 



GEOG. DIST. Eastern North America, breeding far north ; south 

 in winter to the West Indies and Brazil. Casual (?) in Alaska 

 (Nushagak River), Bermuda, Great Britain, and Europe. 



