GALLINAGO SCOLOPACINA*. 



(THE COMMON SNIPE.) 



Scolopax gallinago, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 244 (1766); Gmelin, ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 662 

 (1788); Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 321 (1837); Middendorff, Sibir. Keise, ii. p. 224 

 (1853); Shrenck, Reisen und Forsch. Amur-L. p. 426 (1860); Seebohm & Harvie Brown, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 309 ; Anderson, Yunan Exp. p. 681 (1878). 



1 Scolopax gallinaria, Gmelin, ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 662 (1788). 



Gallinago media, apud Leach, Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 31 ; Sykes, Cat. B. Dukhun, 

 P. Z. S. 1832, p. 163 ; Godman, Ibis, 1866, p. 101 ; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 249 (1872). 



Gallinago scolopacinus, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Amer. p. 52 (1838) ; id. Compt. 

 Bend, xliii. p. 579 (1856) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 272 (1849) ; Kelaart, Pro- 

 dromus, p. 110, et Cat. p. 135 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist 1854, xiv. 

 p. 266; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 674 (1864); Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces, p. 4 

 (1864) ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 407 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 473 ; Von Heuglin, 

 Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1201 (1873); Legge, J. A. S. (Ceylon Branch), p. 70 (1873); 

 Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 235; Hancock, B. of Northumb. p. 105 (1874); Hume, 

 Str. Feath. 1874, p. 295 ; Irby, B. of Gibraltar, p. 175 (1875); Hume, Nests and Eggs, 

 iii. p. 580 (1875); id. Str. Feath. 1875, p. 182; Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 235 

 (1875) ; Butler & Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 15 ; Scully, t. c. p. 186 ; Fairbank, t. c. 

 p. 263; Blanford, Zool. Persia, p. 282 (1876); Hume & Davison, Str. Feath. 1878 (B. 

 of Tenass.), p. 459 ; Davidson & Wender, ibid. vii. p. 88; Ball, t. c. p. 228; Seebohm, 

 Ibis, 1879, p. 156. 



Gallinago gallinaria (Gin.), Cripps, Str. Feath. 1878, p. 302 ; Hume, ibid. 1879, p. 70 (List 

 B. of Malay. Penin.) ; id. t. c. p. 112 (List B. of Ind.). 



Becassine, BufFon ; Gijach, Welsh ; Agachadiza, Spanish (Saunders) ; Agachona, Andalucia 

 (Irby) ; Maganico real, Azores (Godman). Choseh, Chuschah, Arabic (Von Heuglin) ; 

 Ji-shigi, Japanese (Blakiston) ; Azzi, Amuria (Schrenck) ; Bou monkar, lit. "Father of 

 the bill," Moorish (Irby) ; Bliarlca Bharak, Hind., also Chaha ; Soorkhab, lit. " Sucker 

 of Water," of some Shikarees ; Muku puredi, Telugu ; Cliegga Bengal. ; More-ulan, 

 Tamil ; Mali rameki, lit. " The Solitary One," Turki (Scully). 



Kceswatuiva, Sinhalese. 



Adult (Ceylon, Jan. 1873). Length 11-0 inches ; wing 5-2 ; tarsus 1-17 ; tail 2-5 ; middle toe and claw 1"35 ; bill at 



front 2-66. 

 Iris dark brown ; bill reddish brown, pale at the base beneath ; legs and feet greyish green. 



* The Linnean and oldest title of the Snipe cannot unfortunately be applied to it, as the specific name is the same as 

 the now-employed generic one, the Snipes having very properly been removed from the genus Scolopax. As, therefore, 

 the Stricklandian code forbids the use of the name Gallinago gallinago, the next oldest name is that of Bonaparte's, as 

 Leach's prior title had been applied by Latham to the Great Snipe before its bestowal on the present species. With regard 

 to G-melin's name, gallinaria, previously applied by O. F. Miiller (Zool. Dan. Prodr. p. 23, 1776), it can only be remarked 

 that it cannot possibly apply to the Common Snipe, as the description runs, " pedibus flavis, capite toto grisea, &c." 



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