70 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



LIMICOLAE. 



SCOLOPACIDAE. 



R. I. — Common migrant and rare winter resident. Mar. 9- 

 May 6; (July 29) Aug. 12-Nov. 14 (Dec., Jan.). 



CoNX. — Common migrant, rare summer and winter resident. 

 Mar. 18-Dec.; winter. Eggs, May 13 (Portland). 



134. Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmelin) Leach. 



Dowitcher; Brownback; Deutscher; Fool plover; German 

 snipe; Grayback; Gray snipe; Red-breasted snipe; Robin 

 snipe. 



Scolopax grisea Gmel., Syst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 658. "in 



NoVEBORACI MARITIMIS." 



Scolopax novehoracensis Gmel. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1843, vol. 6, p. 10, pi. 351. Egg, Seebohm, 1896, p. 143, pi. 41, 

 fig. 8._ 



Chiefly maritime marshes and mudflats; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Common migrant coastwise. May 21-29; late July- 

 Sept. (Oct. 29). 



N. H. — -Migrant, common in fall. May 20-25; July 20-Sept. 



Mass. — Rare spring and uncommon fall migrant, mainly coast- 

 wise. May 1-June 7 (June 18); July 5-Sept. 30. 



R. I. — Uncommon migrant coastwise. INIay; July 5-Oct. 20. 



CoNX. — Uncommon migrant, mainly in fall. 



135. Macrorhamphus scolopaceus (Say) Lawrence. 



Long-billed dowitcher. 



Elliot, New and unfigured birds Xo. Amer., 1869, vol. 2, pi. 40. 

 Limosa scolopacea Say, Long's exped. to Rocky Mts., 1823, vol. 

 1, p. 170. "near the Bowyer creek," Iowa. 



Chieflv maritime marshes and mudflats; nests on the ground. 



Mass. — Rare fall migrant. Aug. 29-Nov. 3. 



R. L— Rare fall migrant: Middletown, Oct. 8, 1890. 



