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ZOOLOGY BIRDS. 



marshy places appeared to be the only resorts in the neighborhood ; for 

 after being absent for a few moments they invariably returned to the same 

 spots, and resumed their feeding. 



FAM. SCOLOPACIDxiE : SNIPES. 



GALLINAGO WILSONI, (Temm.). 

 Wilson's Snipe. 



Scolopax icilsoni, TEMM., PI. Color., v, pi. Ixviii (in text). NEWB. P. R. 11. Rep., vi, 

 1857, 100. HEEKM., P. R. R. Rep., x, pt. iv, 1859, G6. 



GaUinago wilsonii, BD., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, pt, iv, 6. Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 

 710. Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 25. KENNERLY, 

 P. R. R. Rep., Whipple's Route, x, 1859, 34. XANTUS, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila,, 1859, 192 (Fort Tejon, Cal.). HENKY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico). COOP. & SUCKL., P. R. R. Rep., xii, pt. ii, 

 1860, 237. HAYD., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc., xii, 1862, 174. COUES, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18(56, 97. STEV., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 466 

 (Wyoming). COUES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 262, f. 163. SNOW, Birds Kan., 

 1872, 13. MERRIAM, D. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1872, 701. YARROW & HEN- 

 SHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 28. ALLEN, Bui. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., 1872, 181. COUES, Birds Northwest, 1874, 475. RIDOK, 

 An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, 1874, 383. HENSHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1873, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, 68, 144. 



Wilson's Snipe is of common occurrence throughout the Middle Region, 

 and also in New Mexico and Arizona. Mr. Ridgway found it in Parley's Park, 

 Utah, all through the summer ; and thus it seems likely that it breeds here, 

 finding in this elevated district an equivalent for the higher latitudes it usually 

 seeks for the purposes of reproduction. Farther south, I am inclined to 

 think it occurs only as a migrant, or at least does not breed, though 

 possibly it may find in the warm sheltered spots of these southern Terri- 

 tories favorable winter resorts. In the neighborhood of certain warm 



