110 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus PHILOHELA Gray. 



Philohela Gray, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, 1841, 90. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Scolopax minor Gmelin. 



Philohela minor (Gmelin). Woodcock. [228]. 



Scolopax minor Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 661. (New York.) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds from northeastern 

 North Dakota, southern Manitoba, northern Michigan, southern 

 Quebec, and Nova Scotia south to southern Kansas, sdutherji Louisi- 

 ana, and northern Florida; winters from southern Missouri, the Ohio 

 Valley, and New Jersey (rarely Massachusetts) south to Texas and 

 southern Florida; ranges casually to Saskatchewan, Keewatin, Colo- 

 rado, Newfoundland, and Bermuda. 



Genus GALLINAGO Koch. 



Gallinago Koch, Syst. Baier. Zool., 1816, 312. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Gallinago media Koch = Scolopax gallinago LiNN.s;trS. 



[Gallinago gallinSgo (Linn^us). European Snipe. [229.] 



Scolopax gallinago Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 147. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds in 

 Great Britain, Iceland, northern Europe, and Siberia to latitude 

 70°, and in mountains of Europe and Asia; winters in Great Britain, 

 southern Europe, northern Africa, India, China, and the Philippines; 

 casual in Greenland; accidental in Bermuda.] 



Gallinago delicdta (Ord). Wilson's Snipe. [230.] 



Scolopax delicata Ord, Reprint of Wilson's, Orn., IX, 1825, ccxviii. 

 (Pennsylvania.) 



Range. — North America and northern South America. Breeds 

 from northwestern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, 

 and northern Ungava south to northern CaUfornia, southern Colo- 

 rado, northern Iowa, northern Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; 



