ORDER LlMICOLiE. 



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Family SCOLOPACID^. Snipes, Sandpipers, etc. 



Genus SCOLOFAX Linn^us. 

 Scolopax Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 145. Type, 6". rusticola Linn. 



[227.] Scolopax rusticola Linn. 



Kuropean Woodcock. 



Scolopax rusticola Linn. S. N. ed. 10, L 1758, 146. 

 [B~, C 413, 1^524, C 606.] 



Hab. Northern parts of the Old World; occasional in Eastern 

 North America. 



Genus FHILOHELA Gray. 

 Philohela Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, 90. Type, Scolopax minor Gm. 

 228. Philohela minor (Gmel.). 



American Woodcock. 



Scolopax 7Hinor Gmel. S. N. L ii. 1788, 661. 

 Philohela minor Gray, List Gen. B. 1841, 90. 



[B 522, C 412, R 525, C 606.] 



Hab. Eastern Province of North America, north to the British 

 Provinces, west to Dakota, Kansas, etc. ; breeding throughout its 

 range. No extralimital records. 



Genus GALLINAG-O Leach. 



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

 Scolopax major Linn. 



Type, 



[229.] Gallinago gallinago (Linn.). 



European Snipe. 



Scolopax gallinago Linn. S. N. ed. to, L 1758, 147. 

 Gallinago gallinago Light. Norn. Mus. Berol. 1854, 93. 



[B — , C — , R 526, C 607.] 



Hab. Northern parts of the Old World ; frequent in Greenland, 

 accidental in the Bermudas. 



