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SCOLOPAX. 



Asiatic and European Snipes. 



SCOLOPAX GALLINULA. 



JACK SNIPE. 

 Diagnosis. Scolopax dorso purpureo : scapularibus viridi-iridescente ornatis. 



Variations. Examples from England and Japan appear to be precisely similar. 



Synonymy. 



Literature. 



Scolopax gallinago minor, Brisson, Orn. v. p. 304 (1760). 



Scolopax gallinula, Linneus 1 , Syst. Nat. i. p. 244 (1766). 



Gallinago minima, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. fyc. Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1816). 



Lymnocryptes gallinula {Linn.), Kaup, Natiirl. Syst. p. 118 (1829). 



Philolimnos gallinula {Linn.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 623 (1831). 



Gallinago gallinula {Linn.), Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. $f N. Amer. p. 52 (1838). 



Ascalopax gallinula {Linn.), Keyserling u. Blasius, Wirb. Eur. p. lxvii (1840). 



Telmatias gallinula {Linn.), Droste, Vog. Bork. p. 234 (1869). 



Plates. — Daub. PI. Enl. no. 884 ; Gould, Birds Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 81 ; Dresser, Birds of Europe, 



vii. pi. 544. 

 Habits. — Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 247. 

 Eggs. — Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 28. figs. 7, 9. 



1 It is a remarkable fact that the Jack Snipe was not known to Linneus when he wrote his tenth edition 

 of the ' Systema Natural. ' 



