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A[scolopax] novaebomcensis Maximilian, Jouru. fiir Orn., 1859, 93 (Missouri). 



Totanus noveboracensis Sabine, in Franklin's Journ. Polar Sea, 1823, 687. 



Limnodromus noveboracensis Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1832, 717. 



Macrorhmnphus noveboracensis Lichtenstein, Nom. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 93. 



[Scolopax] nutans Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, G59 (Chateaux Bay, coast 

 Labrador; based on Nodding snipe Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii 465: =young). 



Scolopax leucophxa (not of Latham) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 

 358 (North America; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.): Gal. Ois., ii, 1825, 110, pi. 

 241. 



Totanus ferrugineicollis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 401 (New- 

 York; new name for Scolopax noveboracensis Gmelin); Tabl. Enc. M6th.,iii, 

 1823, 1099. 



Scolopax paykullii Nilsson, Orn. Suecica, ii, 1821, 106, pi. 11 (Lappland). — Rich- 

 ardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 398, footnote (crit.). 



Macrorhamphus punctatus Lesson, Traitd d'Orn., 1831, 556 (New York; north 

 Europe in migration). 



LIMNODROMUS GRISEUS SCOLOPACEUS (Say). 



LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER. 



Similar in coloration to L. griseus griseus but larger, with decidedly 

 longer bill, tarsi, and toes, the summer adults with cinnamon color of 

 under parts deeper and much more uniform, covering abdomen, and 

 sides distinctly barred with dusky. 



Downy young. — Pileum (except laterally) very dark burnt-umber 

 brown margined laterally by a superciliary stripe of pale dull buffy, this 

 much broader and more decidedly buffy anteriorly ; beneath the latter 

 a blackish brown loral streak, extending from rictus to anterior angle 

 of eye and a broader postocular streak of clear burnt umber or dark 

 brown; auricular region pale buffy with a narrow longitudinal blackish 

 line across middle portion; general color of upper parts dark burnt- 

 umber intermixed with a lighter or clearer tone of the same color, 

 dotted with grayish white, this on back and rump arranged in two 

 rather definite longitudinal parallel stripes; chin and throat very pale 

 brownish buff or dull buffy whitish; rest of under parts pale brownish 

 buffy, deepening into cinnamon on chest. 



Adult male.— \Tmg, 139-145 (141.1); taU, 50-56.5 (54.5); exposed 

 culmen, 52-69.5 (61); tarsus, 33.5-40.5 (37.2); middle toe, 24-28 

 (26.3).° 



Adult female.— \s'mg, 136-150 (145.4); tail, 56-61 (58.1); exposed 

 culmen, 62-79 (71.3) ; tarsus, 36.5-42 (39.8) ; middle toe, 26-30 (27.7).° 



Western North America; breeding from northwestern Mackenzie to 

 western Alaska, probably also in northeastern Siberia (Tsuktsch- 

 halfon, June; Cape Wankarem; etc.); migrating southward, chiefly 

 through western portion of Mississippi Valley, to Mexico (Matamoros, 

 Tamaulipas; Espia, Sonora; Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Guanajuato; Zacate- 

 ca**: San Luis Potosi; San Mateo, Oaxaca), Guatemala (Chiapam; 



a Ten specimens. 



