198 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



especially on chest, which, together with sides, is usually more or less 

 speckled with dusk}^; otherwise much like winter adults. 



Adult male.— Wing, 135-149 (141); tail, 53-58.5 (54.6) ; exposed 

 culmen, 51-59.5 (55.3); tarsus, 30-36.5 (33.5); middle toe, 23-27 

 (25.1).« 



Adult female.— Wing, 138.5-148 (142.9); tail, 52-57 (54.5); ex- 

 posed culmen, 55.5-62 (59.4); tarsus, 31-36 (33.3); middle toe, 23-27 

 (25.4).'' 



Eastern North America, West Indies, and northeastern South 

 America; breeding far northward, probably in Ungava and northern 

 Labrador (possibly western side of Hudson Bay also); migrating 

 southward along Atlantic coast (more rarely through Mississippi 

 Valley), and wintering in southern Florida, West Indies (Bahamas; 

 Cuba; Jamaica; Sombrero; Guadeloupe; Barbados; Grenada), Trini- 

 dad, British Guiana, and Brazil (Cujutuba; Para; Bahia); occasional 

 in British Islands (15 records), and France (2 records); casual in 

 Greenland, Alaska (Nushagak), and northern Idaho (Fort Sherman).*' 



[Scolopax] grisea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 656 (coast of New York; based 

 on Brown Snipe Pennant, Arctic ZooL, ii, 464; Latham, Synopsis Birds, v. 

 154).— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 724.— Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 395. 



Scolopax grisea Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 357. — Temminck, 

 Man. d'Orn., ii, 1820, 679; iv, 1840, 437.— Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., V. 1825, 81; Obs. Norn. Wilson's Am. Orn., 1826, [163J; Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ii, 1827, 330; Am. Orn., iv, 1832, 51, pL 23.— Fox, Newc. Mus., 

 1827, 371.— Fleming, Brit. Anim., 1828, 106.— Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. 

 and Can., Water Bu-ds, 1834, 181. — Audubon, Birds Am., foL ed., iv, 1838, 

 pL 399.— Peabody, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 371.— Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 

 ii, 1843, 621.— Schlegel, Rev. Grit., 1844, 86.— Denny, Proc. ZooL Soc. 

 Lond., 1847, 39.— Harting, Birds Middlesex, 1866, 195. 



Tetanus griseus (not of Bechstein, 1809) Vieillot, Nouv. Dist. d'Hist. Nat., 

 vi, 1816, 406 (environs of New York City). 



Macrorhamphus griseus Leach, Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 31. — 

 Stephens, Shaw's Gen. ZooL, xii, 1824, 61, pi. 9. — Jardine, ed. Wilson's 

 Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 337; Contr. Orn., 1849, 84 (Bermudas, common). — Bona- 

 parte, Am. Orn., iv, 1832, 51, pi. 23; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 52.— 

 Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr., 1835, 207.— Gould, Birds Europe, iv, 1837, 

 pi. 323 and text; Birds Great Brit., iv, 1872, pi. 76 and text.— Macgillivray, 

 Man. Brit. Orn., ii, 1842, 100; Hist. Brit. Birds, iv, 1852, 275.— Gray, List 

 Birds Brit. Mus., Grallse, 1844, 109 (Devonshire, England); List Brit. Bii'ds, 

 1863, 172.— Yarrell, Hist. Brit. Birds, 2nd ed., iii, 1845, 43; 3rd ed., 

 iii, 1856, 46. — Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 10 (Bermudas, Aug., 

 Oct.).— Reichenbach, Grallatores, 1850, pi. 356, ligs. 2793-2795.— Brewer, 

 Proc. Best. Soc. N.H.,iv, 1854, 326 (ace. in Europe); xvii, 1875, 445 (New 



o Eleven specimens. 



b Ten specimens. 



c Without examination of specimens it is impossible to tell whether records for the 

 Gulf and Caribbean coasts of Mexico and Central America, as well as certain ones 

 or localities in the interior of the continent, are referable to this form or to L. g. 

 fscolopaceus. These doubtful records have been placed where they seem most prob- 

 ably to belong, but are distinguished by the interrogation mark in each instance. 



