GALLINAGO SCOLOPACINA*. 
(THE COMMON SNIPE.) 
Scolopax gallinago , Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 244 (1766); Gmelin, ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 662 
(1788); Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 321 (1837); Middendorff, Sibir. Reise, ii. p. 224 
(1853); Shrenck, Reisen und Forsch. Amur-L. p. 426 (1860); Seebohm & Harvie Brown, 
Ibis, 1876, p. 309 ; Anderson, Yunan Exp. p. 681 (1878). 
1 Scolopax gallinaria, Gmelin, ed. Syst. Nat. i. p. 662 (1788). 
Gallinago media, apui Leach, Cat. M & B. Brit. Mu, p. 81, . Sykes, Cat. B. Dukhun 
P. Z. S. 1832, p. 163 ; Godman, Ibis, 1866, p. 101 ; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. -<49 (187^). 
Gallinago scolopacinus, Bonap. Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Amer. p. 52 (1838); id. Compt. 
Rend, xliii. p. 579 (1856); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 272 (1849); Kelaart, Pro- 
dromus, p. 110, et Cat. p. 135 (1852); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist 1854, xiv. 
p 266; Jerdon, B. of Ind. iii. p. 674 (1864); Schlegel, Mus. P.-B. Scolopaces , p. 4 
(1864)’; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 407 ; ILoldsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 473 ; Yon Heuglin, 
Orn. N.Ost-Afr. ii. p. 1201 (1873); Legge, J. A. S. (Ceylon Branch), p. 70 (1873); 
Hume, Str. Feath. 1873, p. 235; Hancock, B. of Northumb. p. 105 (1874); Hume, 
Str. Feath. 1874, p. 295 ; Irby, B. of Gibraltar, p. 175 (1875); Hume, Nests and Eggs, 
iii. p. 580 (1875); id. Str. Feath. 1875, p. 182; Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 235 
(1875); Butler & Hume, Str. Feath. 1876, p. 15; Scully, t. c. p. 186 ; Fairbank, t. c. 
p. 263; Blanford, Zool. Persia, p. 282 (1876); Hume & Davison, Str. Feath. 1878 (B. 
of Tenass.), p. 459 ; Davidson & Wender, ibid. vii. p. 88; Ball, t. c. p. 228; Seebohm, 
Ibis, 1879, p. 156. 
Gallinago gallinaria (Gm.), Cripps, Str. Feath. 1878, p. 302 ; Hume, Aid. 1879, p. 70 (List 
B. of Malay. Penin.) ; id. t. c. p. 112 (List B. of Ind.). 
Becassine, Buffon ; Gijach, Welsh ; Agachadiza, Spanish (Saunders) ; Agachona, Andalucia 
(Irby) ; Macanico real, Azores (Godman). Choseh, Chuschah, Arabic (Von Heuglin) , 
Ji-shigi, Japanese (Blakiston) ; Azzi, Amuria (Schrenck) ; Bou monkar, lit. “Father of 
the bill,” Moorish (Irby) ; Bharka Bharak, Hind., also Chaha ; Soorkhab, lit. “ Sucker 
of Water,” of some Shikarees ; Muku puredi, Telugu ; Chegga Bengal. ; More-ulan, 
Tamil ; Mali ramcki, lit. “ The Solitary One,” Turki (Scully). 
Kceswatuwa, Sinhalese. 
Adult (Ceylon, Jan. 1873). Length ll'O inches ; wing 5-2 ; tarsus 1'17 ; tail 2'5 ; middle toe and claw 1'35 ; bill at 
front 2 - 66. . , 
Iris dark brown ; bill reddish brown, pale at the base beneath ; legs and feet greyish green. 
* The Linuean and oldest title of the Snipe cannot unfortunately be applied to it, as the specific name is the same as 
the now-employed generic one, the Snipe, having very properly been removed from the genus Srtpm. As, therefore, 
the Strict landian code forbids the ns. of the name ffoIKnnye gatlmego, the neit oldest name is that of Boraparte s, as 
Wchl orkr title had been applied by Latham to the Great Snipe before it. bestowal on the present specie. With regard 
tc^Gmehn s name, „B,»rii. previously applied by O. F. Miiller (Zool. Dan. Prodr p. 23, 1776), .t can only be remarked 
that it cannot) possibly apply to the Common Snipe, as the description runs, “p .dUmJta,,., rep.ts hue S r„ea 4c. 
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