214: ' CHARADEIID^. 



Limnocryptes gallinula. Jack Snipe. 



Scolopax gallinula Linnceus, Sjst. Nat. 12th ed. i. 1766, 

 p. 244 : France. 



Limnocryptes gallinula (Linn.) ; B. O. TT. List, 1st ed. 1883, 



p. 167 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 665. 

 GaUinago gallinula Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 575. 

 GalUnula=a, Chicken ; dimunitiTe of galUna=& Hen. Cf. GaXlhiago. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bird of Passage and 

 a Winter Visitor, generally distributed, arriving from about 

 the middle of September to the middle of October and 

 departing towards the end of March and in April. Oc- 

 casionally a few remain throughout the summer, but the 

 species has never been proved to nest in our Islands. 



General Distribution. — The Jack Snipe breeds in the 

 northern parts of Europe and Asia, most plentifully above the 

 Arctic Circle from northern Scandinavia, Lapland, Finland, 

 and Russia ; eastwards to the Taimju" I'eninsula and the 

 Kolyma River, in Siberia ; southwards its breeding-range 

 is said to extend to Poland, the Grovernments of Orel and 

 Perm in Russia, and Tomsk, in western Siberia. It is also 

 reported to breed in Holstein, Pomerania, Silesia, and 

 Bavaria. In winter it visits the Mediterranean, north Africa, 

 Abyssinia, Persia, Afghanistan, India, Ceylon, and Burma. 

 It is occasional in Japan and Formosa, and accidental in 

 the Faeroes. 



Genus LIMICOLA Koch, Syst. baier. Zool. 1816, p. 316. 

 Type : L. falcinellus Pontopp. 

 tJmicula =Kving in muddy places, one that haunts mud ; from limits andcokVe. 



Limicola falcinellus. Bko.-vd-billed Sandpiper. 



Scolopax falcinellus Po7it oppidan, Danske Atlas, i. 

 1763, p. 623 : Denmark. 



Limicola platyi-hyncha (Temtii.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, 

 p. 167 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 612 ; 

 Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 577. 



