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SCOLOPAX. 



only twelve rectrices are probably the reasons why it has been allowed to retain the genus 

 created for its reception in the prse-Darwinian dark ages. 



Diagnosis. 



Synonymy. 



SCOLOPAX MAJOR. 



GREAT SNIPE. 



ScoLOPAX rectricibus sedecim, quarum quatuor laterales pro majore parte albae sunt; tectricibus 

 mediis late albo terminatis. 



Variations. No local races of this species are known. 



Gallinago mediae Gerini, Orn. Meth. Big. iv. p. 59, pi. cdxlvi. (1773). 



Scolopax media {Gerini), Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 292 (1787). 



Scolopax major, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 661 (1788). 



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



Scolopax palustris, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 173 (1826). 



Telmatias major [Gmel.], Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 615 (1831). 



Scolopax leucurus, Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. p. 501 (1831). 



Gallinago montagui, Bonap. Camp. List B. Eur. ^ N. Amer. p. 52 (1838). 



Ascalopax major {Gmel), Keyserling u. Blasius, Wirb. Eur. p. Ixxviii (1840). 



Scolopax solitaria, Macyillivray, Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 102 (1842, nee Hodgson). 



Gallinago media {Gerini), Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 93 (1854). 



