JOURNAL 



OF THE 



Bombay Natural History Society. 



May 1911. Vol. XX. No. 4. 



THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, 

 BURMA AND CEYLON, 



BY 



E. C. Stuart Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Part IV. 



(With Plate IV) 



(Continued from page 602 of this Volume.) 



Family— CHA B ADRIID^E, 



Genus— GALLINAGO. 



Gallinago gallinula. 



The Jack, Snipe. 



iScolopix gallinula. — Linn., Syst. Nat., i, p. 244 (1766); 

 Seebohm, Charadriidse, p, 480. 



Gallinago gallinula. — Blyth, Cat. p. 272; Jerdon, B. of I., iii., 

 p. 676 ; Hume, Str. Feath., i, p. 235 ; Adam, ibid, p. 395 ; Butler, 

 ibid, iv, p. 15; Fairbank, ibid, p. 263; id., ibid, v, p. 410; Hume 

 & Dav., ibid, vi, p. 459 ; Dav. and Wendon, ibid, vii, p. 88 ; Ball, 

 ibid, p. 228; Cripps, ibid, p. 302; Hume, ibid, p. 484; id, Cat. 

 No. 872; Scully, Str. Feath., viii, p. 356; Legge, B. of Cejdon, 

 p. 828 ; Hume and Marsh., Game B., iii., p. 373; Vidal, Str. Feath., 

 ix, p. 89; Butler, ibid, p. 428; Reid, ibid, x, p. 69; Eden, ibid, 

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