LESSER WOODCOCK. 



(Rusticola minor, Nobis. Scolopax minor, Gmel. BoNAP.Syn. No. 



269. Wilson, vi. p. 40. pi. 48. fig. 2. Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 



4G3. No. 3G5. Phil. Museum, No. . .) 

 Sp. Ckabact. — Hind head black, with 3 pale rufous bands; beneath 

 dilute-rufous and without bars ; quills plain dusky, 



.The American Woodcock, like the Snipe, appears again 

 to be a near representative of that of Europe, whose man- 

 ners and habits it ahiiost entirely possesses, differing, how- 

 ever, materially in the temperature of the climates selected 

 for its residence, confining itself in the summer to the south 

 side of the St. Lawrence, breeding in all the intermediate 

 space as far as the limits of the Middle States, and retiring 

 in winter, for the most part, either to or beyond the boundary 

 of the Union. The European species, on the contrary, court- 



