Catalogue of Birds found in Europe and America. 391 
TANTALID&, 
America. 
Ibis faleinellus.* (L.)  Vieill. 
Ibis ordii. Bp. 
Found singly and at intervals over the 
whole United States. (Baird, Cassin, 
and Lawrence.) 
Mexico. (Gray.) 
Ibis faleinellus.* 
Europe. 
(L.) Vieill. (Glossy 
Ibis. ) : 
Central and Southern Europe. North 
Africa, Zanzibar, Gaboon, Madagascar, 
Natal. In Asia as far east as Cochin 
China, and sometimes to Australia. 
(Dresser.) 
Rare in England, formerly more common ; 
still rarer in Scotland, but has been 
met with as far north as Shetland 
(Gray, Birds of West of Scotland, p. 
286.) 
SCOLOPACIDA. 
Gallinago media. Gallinayo media.* Leach. (Common 
Greenland, and perhaps breeds there. Snipe.) 
(Newton. ) 
Gallinago wilsoni.* Temm. (Wilson's 
Snipe.) 
Entire temperate North America. (Baird, 
Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, and 
Guiana. (Sclater and Salvin.) 
Macrorhamphus griseus.* (Gm.) Teach. 
(Red-breasted Snipe.) 
Entiretemperate North America. (Baird, 
Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Has occurred once in Greenland (Newton. ) 
From Panama to Brazil (Sclater and 
Salvin. ) 
Tringa canutus.* Linn. 
The whole of North America. 
Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
Northern Greenland. Rare in Southern 
(Baird, 
Greenland. (Newton.) 
Coast of Guina and Brazil. (Sclater and 
Salvin.) 
Tringa striata.* Linn. (Purple Sand- 
piper.) 
North America; south 
States. (Dr. Coues.) 
to the middle 
Throughout Europe, breeding most nume- 
rously in the northern parts. Sir 
Humphry Davy says it breeds in 
great quantities in the marshes of Hun- 
gary and Illyria, and Mr. Strickland, 
that it is common in winter in Smyrna. 
Also found in the Faroe Islands and 
Iceland, and Pennant says it is found 
in all parts of Russia and Siberia. 
(Yarrell. ) 
Gallinago wilsoni. 
One was taken in Buckinghamshire, 
England, 1st August, 1863. (Harting, 
Hand-book Brit. Birds, p. 143.) 
Macrorhampus griseus. 
About thirteen have been taken in Eng- 
land, three in Scotland, one in the 
Isle of Man, and one in Scilly. 
(Harting, Hand-book Brit. Birds, p. 
144.) Has occurred in France (Degland 
and Gerbe.) 
According to Taczonowski it occurs in 
North-East Siberia. (Dresser.) 
Tringa canutus.* Linn. (Knot.) 
A spring and autumn visitor to Britain. 
Northern Europe migrating along the 
west coast of the continent, and found 
sparingly down the west coast of 
Africa; Walwich Bay; Damara Land. 
Met with sparingly in Asia north of the 
Uda. The Amoor, Kultuk, Shanghai, &e. 
Australia and New Zealand. (Dresser.) 
Tringa striata.* Linn. (Purple Sand- 
piper.) 
According to Dresser it inhabits Northern 
and Western Europe, Novaya Zemlya. 
