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Limnocryptes gallinula. Jack Snipe. 



Scolopax Gallinula, lAnnmus, S. N. i. p. 244 

 (1766). 

 Scolopax galHnulaj Naum. viii. p. 344, xiii. p. 246 ; Ma 

 iv. p. 380; Hewitson, p. 355; Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 33; 

 id. ed. 3, iii. p. 39. 

 Gallinago gallinula, Gray, p. 174; Hurting, p. 52; Dresser, 



vii. p. 653. 

 Limnocryptes gallinula, Gould, iv. pi. 80. 

 The Jack Snipe, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 611. 



Gallmula = a Ohioken ; diminutive oigallma — a Hen. Of. Qallinago. 

 Common in winter in the British Islands. Breeds in 

 Northern Europe and Asia, migrating in winter to India 

 and Northern Africa. 



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

 (1816). 



Limlodla = living in muddy places ; from limtts and colo, 



Limicola platyrhyncha. Beoad-billed Sand- 

 piper. 



Tringaplatyrincha (misprint), Temminck, Man. d^Orn. 

 p. 398 (1815). 



Limicola pygmsea, Naum. viii. p. 271, xiii. p. 245; Gould, 



iv. pi. 75. 

 Tringa platyrhyncha, Macg. iv. p. 224; Hewitson, p. 359; 



Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 61; id. ed. 3, iii. p 65; Harting, 



p. 141. 

 Tringa pygmsea. Gray, p. 170. 

 Limicola platyrhyncha. Dresser, vui. p. 3. 

 The Broad-billed Sandpiper, Yarr. ed. 1, ii. p. 638. 



Platyrhyncha = broad-billed ; from TrXarvs + pvyxos, 



A rare straggler to the British Islands. Breeds in Northern 

 Europe. Pound in winter in North Africa and India. 



