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SCOLOPAX. 



only twelve rectrices are probably the reasons why it has been allowed to retain the genus 

 created for its reception in the pree-Darwinian dark ages. 



SCOLOPAX MAJOR. 



GREAT SNIPE. 



Diagnosis. Scolopax rectricibus sedecioa, quaram quatuor laterales pro mxjore parte albae sunt; tectricibus 

 mediis late albo terrainatis. 



Synonymy. 



Variations. No local races of this species are known. 



Gallinago media, Gerini, Orn. Meth. Dig. iv. p. 59, pi. cdxlvi. (1773). 



Scolopax media (Gerini), Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 292 (1787). 



Scolopax major, Gmelin, Syst. A T at. i. p. 661 (1788). 



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



Scolopax palustris, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 173 (1826). 



Telmatias major (Gmel.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 615 (1831). 



Scolopax leucurus, Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. p. 501 (1831). 



Gallinago montagui, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. §■ N. Amer. p. 52 (1838). 



Ascalopax major (Gmel.), Keyserling u. Blasius, Wirb. Eur. p. lxxviii (1840). 



Scolopax solitaria, Macgillivray , Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 102 (1842, nee Hodgson). 



Gallinago media (Gerini), Lichtenstein. Nomencl. Av. p. 93 (1854). 



