SflOLOPAX. 



465 



Aberrant Snipes. 



Ethiopian Region. 



Tropical Africa. 

 Madagascar. 



Typical Snipes. 



JEQUATORIALIS. 

 MACRODACTYLA. 



MINOR 



UNDULATA . 

 GIGANTEA 

 IMPERIALIS . 

 JAMESONI . 

 STRICKLANDI 



Nearctic Region. 



Subarctic. 

 East Subtropical. 



Neotropical Region. 



Guiana. 



Brazil. 



Columbian Andes. 



Peruvian Andes. 



Chilian Andes. 



Falkland Islands. 



WILSONI. 



FRENATA. 



NOBILIS. 

 ANDINA. 

 CHILENSIS. 

 JIAGELLANICA. 



The genus Scolopax belongs for the most part to the Temperate Regions, but it may Climatic 

 be regarded as cosmopolitan. The distribution of the 27 species and subspecies which Q18Xlulon - 



it contains is as follows during the breeding-season : — 



Arctic Eurasia 1 



Arctic species — 1 



Arctic and Temperate Eurasia .... 4 



Arctic and Temperate America .... 1 



Arctic and Temperate species . — 5 



Temperate Eurasia 5 



Temperate N. America 1 



Temperate New Zealand 1 



Temperate S. America 7 



Temperate species .... 



Temperate and Tropical Africa .... 1 



Temperate and Tropical species. 



Tropical America '6 



Tropical Asia 2 



Tropical Africa 1- 



Tropical species — 6 



Species and subspecies of Scolopax . . — 27 



— 14 



— 1 



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