368 CHARADRIIDZ. 
MACRORHAMPHUS. 
Macrorhamphus, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. & Birds Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1816); Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 393 (1896). 
This curious genus is intermediate in form between the Godwits and the Sand- 
pipers. It has a long bill, as in Zimosa, with the culmen exceeding the length of the 
tail, but both mandibles are widened and pitted at the end, and the groove on the 
lower mandible extends nearly to the tip of the latter. 
Two species are known—QW. griseus being a Nearctic form, which winters in Central 
and South America, while M. taczanowskii breeds in Eastern Siberia and winters in the 
Burmese provinces and N.E. Bengal. 
4. Macrorhamphus griseus. 
Brown Snipe, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 1547. 
Scolopax grisea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 *. 
Macrorhamphus griseus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 277%; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 4794; 
Salv. Ibis, 1865, p. 191°; 1889, p. 379°; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p- 86"; v. Frantzius, J. f. 
Orn. 1869, p. 377°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 142°; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Water- Birds 
N. Amer. i. p. 196"; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 85"; Elliot, 
N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 53%; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 894°. 
Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N.Y. ix. p. 141‘; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 808”; 
A. O. U. Check-]. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 86*°; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p- 57%”. 
Macrorhamphus griseus, var. scolopaceus, Lawr. Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 46 °°; Sumichr. La 
Nat. v. p. 282”. 
Ereunetes griseus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 396. 
Ereunetes griseus scolopaceus, Seebohm, t. c. p. 898™. 
Ptil. hiem, Supra grisescenti-brunneus, tectricibus alarum anguste albo marginatis, primariis nigricantibus, 
secundariis brunneis, extus et ad apicem albo late marginatis, secundariis intimis longioribus brunneis ; 
dorso postico et uropygio albis, plumis medialiter nigro maculatis; supracaudalibus rectricibusque albis, 
nigro transfasciatis, medianis irregulariter albo notatis ; pileo dorso concolore ; fascia supralorali alba supra 
oculum producta ; loris fuscescenti-brunneis ; facie laterali et gutture albidis, griseo-brunneo lineatis ; 
gutture imo, preepectore et pectore summo et laterali grisescenti-brunneis, his griseo maculatis ; corpore 
reliquo subtus albo, hypochondriis et subcaudalibus, subalaribus et axillaribus griseo- vel nigricanti-brunneo 
fasciatis: rostro saturate olivaceo; pedibus flavicanti-olivaceis; iride rufescenti-corylina. Long. tota 
circa 9°0, alee 5:5, caudee 2:2, culm. 24, tarsi 1:5. (Deser. avis adulte ex Duefias. Mus. nostr.) 
estiv. Nigricans, rufo variegatus: subtus cinnamomeus, gutture, preepectore et corporis lateribus nigro 
maculatis. (Descr. femine adulte ex Zacatecas. Mus. nostr.) 
Pil. 
Hab. Norra America, breeding in the Arctic Regions, migrating south in winter ! 16, 
—MExico, east coast (Swmichrast 1°), Matamoros (Dresser), Mazatlan (Grayson 1), 
Guanajuato (Dugés®), Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi (Richardson 18), San Mateo, 
Tehuantepec (Sumichrast '®§ 1°), Cozumel I. (Gaumer 613); GUATEMALA, Chiapam 
(O. 8.18), Lake of Duefias, San Gerénimo (0. &. & F. D. G.!8); Costa Rica 
(v. Frantzius®'), Alajuela (Underwood, in litt.); Panaua (M‘Leannan*4).— 
CotomBia !®; Brazin 18; West Inptes!*.—Incidental in Europe 2. 
