Snipes, Sandpipers and Phalaropes (Scolopacidae)

Swinhoe's Snipe (Gallinago megala) - HBW 3, p. 493

French: Bécassine de Swinhoe German: Waldbekassine Spanish: Agachadiza del Baikal
Other common names: Chinese/Forest/Marsh Snipe

Taxonomy: Gallinago megala Swinhoe, 1861, between Takoo and Beijing, north China.
Genus formerly named Capella, as this name erroneously considered to pre-date Gallinago (see page 446). Monotypic.

Distribution: CS Siberia and N Mongolia; Amurland and Ussuriland. Winters from S & E India to E & S China and Taiwan, and S through Malay Peninsula, Philippines and Indonesia to New Guinea and N Australia.