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SCOLOPAX. 



** Asiatic and European Snipes. 



SCOLOPAX GALLINULA. 



JACK SNIPB. 

 Diagnosis. Scolopax dorso purpureo : scapularibus viridi-iridescente ornatis. 



Variations. EXAMPLES from England and Japan appear to be precisely similar. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



Scolopax gallinago minor, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 304 (1760). 



Scolopax gallinula, Linneus\ Syst. Nat. i. p. 244 (1766). 



Gallinago minima, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. ^c. Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1816). 



Lymnocryptes gallinula (Linn.), Kaup, Naturl. Syst. p. 118 (1829). 



Philolimnos gallinula {Linn.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 633 (1831). 



Gallinago gallinula [Linn.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. ^ N. Amer. p. 52 (1838). 



Ascalopax gallinula [Linn.), Keyserling u. Blasius, Wirb. Eur. p. Ixvii (1840). 



Telmatias gallinula {Linn.), Droste, Vog. Bork. p. 234 (1869). 



Plates. — Daub. PI. Enl. no. 884; Gould, Birds Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 81; Dresser, Birds of Europe, 



vii. pi. 544. 

 Habits. — Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 247. 

 Eggs. — Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 28. figs. 7, 9. 



It is a remarkable fact that the Jack Snipe was not known to Linneus when he wrote his tenth edition 

 of the ' Systema Naturae,' 



