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reach the shaft; bill blackish for terminal third (approximately), 

 greenish gra}^ (in life) basally; iris dark brown; legs and feet pale 

 greenish gray (in life), or pale gray washed with j-ellowisii green on 

 scutella of acrotarsiuni and toes. 



Adult 7nale.—V:mg, 121-130(127.1); tail, 52-63 (57.1); exposed 

 .ciilmen, 57.5-67.5 (62.9) ; tarsus, 27.5-32 (30.4) ; middle toe, 28.5-32 

 (30.3). « 



Adult fnnale.—V^'mg, 117.5-135 (125.2); tail, 50-58.5 (54.5); ex- 

 posd cuimen, 58.5-73.5 (65.4) ; tarsus, 28-33.5 (30.8); middle toe, 

 28-32.5 (30.6^.^ 



North and Middle America and nortliern South America; breeding 

 from northern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and 

 northern Ungava (Fort Chimo) soutliward to northern California 

 (soutliward in higher mountains to Tejon Pass and northern Los 

 Angeles County), Utah (Parleys Park), soutliern Colorado (Twin 

 Lakes; Estes Park; San Juan, Yuma, and Boulder counties), northern 

 Iowa, northeastern Illinois (I^ake and Cook counties), northwestern 

 Indiana (Kankakee marshes), Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; win- 

 tering from northern California, New Mexico, Arkansas, North 

 Carolina, etc., southward tliroughout Mexico, Central America, West 

 Indies and northei-n South America, as far as Colombia (Medellin, 

 Antioquia), Venezuela (Caracas), British Guiana (Maroni River), 

 Tobago, and Brazil (Rio Negro, Amazonas; Bahia; Rio de Janeiro "i ; 

 sometimes wintering locally, as far northward as Wasliington, 

 Montana, Nebraska, Illinois, and Nova vScotia; occasional in Ber- 

 mudas (Oct. to May); accidental in Hawaiian Islands (Naalehu, one 

 specimen) and British Islands. 



Scolopax gallinago (not of Liunseus) Wilson, Am. Orii., vi, 1812, 18, pi. 47, fig. 1. — 

 Ornithological Committee, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1837, 193 (Colum- 

 bia River).— D'OuBiGNY. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 231.— 

 Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1847, 39. 



S[colopax] gallinago Bonaparte, Jouru. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 77 (crit.); 

 Obs. Nomencl. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [159]. 



a Eighteen specimens. 



b Twenty specimens. 



Localitv. 



Wing. Tail. l-PZt^ 



Eight adult males from eastern United States (migrants) 126. 7 



Four adult males from Alaska (breeding) 126. 7 



Six adult males from western United States, Lower California, 



and Sonora (migrants) I 127. 7 



Twelve adult females from eastern United States (migrants). . 124. 2 

 Eight adult females from western United States and Sonora 

 (migrants) 126. 7 



55. 5 j 61. 6 

 61.5 i 62.6 



56.2 



64.7 



53. Si 63. 9 

 55.5 67.3 



Tarsus. 



30.4 

 29.9 



30.6 



30.6 

 31 



Middle 

 toe. 



30.5 

 29.1 



30.4 



30.6 

 30.7 



