_Gallinago megala_ Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 343. (Type locality,
Between Takoo and Pekin, China.
_Gallinago heteroeaca_ Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp.
5, 36 (Palau).
_Gallinago megala_ Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 3, 1882, p. 337
(Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 67 (Pelew); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus.,
24, 1896, p. 624 (Pelew); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 65
(Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 33
(Mariannas); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 67 (Mariannas); _idem_, The
Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 266 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat.
Herb., 9, 1905, p. 80 (Guam); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21
(Guam); Hartert, Vögel pal. Fauna, 13-14, 1921, p. 1665 (Palau,
Guam); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 44 (Guam, Palau);
Strophlet, Auk, 63, 1946, p. 537 (Guam); Baker, Smithson. Misc.
Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 54 (Angaur).
_Subspilura megala_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922,
p. 49 (Guam, Pelew).
_Capella megala_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 193
(Guam, Koror); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24
(Guam); Robinson and Chasen, Birds Malay Peninsula, 3, 1936, p.
170 (Pelew, Marianne); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p.
316 (Guam, Koror).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in east-central Asia. Winters south to
Malaysia, Australia, and parts of Melanesia. In Micronesia: Mariana
Islands--Guam; Palau Islands--Koror, Angaur.
_Specimens examined._--One female from Palau Islands, USNM--Angaur
(Sept. 21).
_Remarks._--The Marsh Snipe is a regular visitor to western Micronesia,
being recorded from the Mariana and Palau islands. At Angaur on
September 21, 1945, the NAMRU2 party observed four birds at the edge of
a brackish water swamp, which was margined with reeds and other
vegetation. Birds were not seen on tidal beaches at Peleliu. Strophlet
(1946:537) records the Marsh Snipe at Guam on October 21 and December 3,
1945.
=Gallinago gallinago gallinago= (Linnaeus)