. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 48-2 SCOLOPAX. only twelve rectrices are probably the reasons why it has been allowed to retain the genus created for its reception in the prse-Darwinian dark Diagnosis. Synonymy. SCOLOPAX MAJOR. GREAT SNIPE. ScoLOPAX rectricibus sedecim, quarum quatuor laterales pro majore parte albae sunt; tectricibus mediis late albo terminatis. Variations. No local races of this species are known. Gallinago mediae Gerini, Orn. Meth. Big. iv. p. 59, pi. cdxlvi. (1773). Scol
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 48-2 SCOLOPAX. only twelve rectrices are probably the reasons why it has been allowed to retain the genus created for its reception in the prse-Darwinian dark Diagnosis. Synonymy. SCOLOPAX MAJOR. GREAT SNIPE. ScoLOPAX rectricibus sedecim, quarum quatuor laterales pro majore parte albae sunt; tectricibus mediis late albo terminatis. Variations. No local races of this species are known. Gallinago mediae Gerini, Orn. Meth. Big. iv. p. 59, pi. cdxlvi. (1773). Scolopax media {Gerini), Latham, Gen. Syn. Suppl. i. p. 292 (1787). Scolopax major, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 661 (1788). Gallinago major (GmeL), Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. S^c. 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. ii. p. 501 (1831). Gallinago montagui, Bonap. Camp. List B. Eur. ^ N. Amer. p. 52 (1838). Ascalopax major {Gmel), Keyserling u. Blasius, Wirb. Eur. p. Ixxviii (1840). Scolopax solitaria, Macyillivray, Man. Brit. B. ii. p. 102 (1842, nee Hodgson). Gallinago media {Gerini), Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. p. 93 (1854).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London : H. Sotheran
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