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PR.ECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LBriCOL.E. 



Genus SCOLOFAZ, Linnjeus. 



ScolojHu; Linn. S. X. cd. 10, 1758, 145 ; cd. 12, 1766, 242 (typo, S. rustkola, Linn.). 

 niMticola, MoKiiii, Av. (icii. 1752, 77 (same type). 



Char. Body very robust ; tarsii.-i loss tliiiii half as loiif; as the bill, and scarcely longer than 

 tin; middle toe ; tiliiic eomiiletcly leathered ; prinmri s iioriual, the outeriuost longest, and broad, 

 like the rest. 



The above diaf,'nosi.t is suHlcient to (lisliii<,'uish this j;enu8, which embraces the European Wood- 

 cock (.S'. niMicHl(i) and two allied Old World species (jr races,* from the genus Philohda, of which 

 the American Woodcock (/••. minor) is the sole representative. 



'i: ill 

 it;:'*!: 



Scolopax rusticula. 



THE EVKOPEAN WOODCOCK. 



Scolopnx ruMknfa, Linn. S. N. cd. 10, 1758, 146; ed. 12, 1706, 243. — N.wm. Vdf;. Dcutsdil. 



VIII. 1836, 301, pi. 211. — Kkvs. & Bi.as. Wirb. Kur. 1840, 78. — S( hi.ko. liev. ciit. 1844, 



85. — (litAV, Ofii. B. III. 1849, 584. — Baiiu), Am. Jour. Arts & Sci. XLl. 1866, 25 (Now- 



foumlland). 

 Scolopnx fUHlicHhi, WiiART. Ibis, 1870, 454. — Ridgw. Nom. N.Am. B. 1881, no. 524. — CouES, 



Chock List, 2il cd. 1SS2, no. 60ti. 

 Scolnpav vuijni; Lr.AclI, Syst. <.'iit. 1816, 31. 



Scolopax pinctorum, Hiir.uM, Viij,'. Dcutschl. 1831, 613, pi. 32, f. 2. 

 Scolnpax Killvcstrii, BitKllM, t. o. 614. 

 Rmiicnla sylvcslrin, Maccii.i,. Man. II. 1840, 105. 

 Rtistkola vulgaris, Vii:ii.i.. N. D. III. 1816, 348. 

 Woo(kock, Yauu. Brit. B. cd. 2, III. 1845, 1, fig. cd. 3, III. 1, fig. ct AucT. 



Had. Palojarctic Region ; occasional in Eastern North America (several records : Loutloun Co., 

 Virginia, Covv:?,, Forest <& Stream, April 27, 1876, p. 180; New Jersey, CouES ; Newfoundland, 

 Baird, Am. Jour. Sci. & Arts, XLL 1866, 25). 



Sp. Char. Adidt : Above rusty brown, everywhere variegated by lighter transverse spots and 

 dusky lines ; the middle of the back (longitudinally) and the scapulars marked with irregular 

 large black spots or blotches ; 8cai>ular3 much mixed with light grayish posteriorly, and sides of 

 the interscapular region almost continuously light grayish, forming a pair of well-defined V-shaped 



* S. saturata, Horsfield, of Java, and S. Rochuascni, Sciilerel, of Africa (Greater Obi). 



