394 chaeabkiidjE. 



Range. North America generally, from the Arctic Regions south 

 to Central and South America ; Eastern Siberia, wintering in the 

 Burmese countries and N.E. Bengal. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Smaller ; culmen less than 3 inches : rump 



white ; axillaries and under wing-coverts, as 

 well as the sides of the body and under tail- 

 coverts, profusely barred with dusky griseus, p. 394. 



b. Larger ; culmen more than 3 inches : rump 



mottled with black; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts white or with only a few dusky 

 frecklings taczanoivskii, p. 400. 



1. Macrorhamphus griseus. 



Brown Snipe, Lath. Gen. Syn. hi. pt. 1, p. 154 (1785) ; Pennant, 

 Arct. Zool. ii. p. 464 (1785). 



Bed-breasted Sn\])e, Lath. Gen. Syn. hi. pt. 1, p. 153 (1785) ; Pennant, 

 Arct. Zool. ii. p. 464 (1785). 



Scolopax gi-isea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788) ; Lath. hid. Orn. 

 ii. p. 724 (1790) ; Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 679 (1820) ; Fleming, 

 Brit. Anim. p. 106 (1828) ; Pp. Amer. Orn. iv. p. 51, pi. 23 

 (1832); Schl. Rev. Cnt. p. lxxxvi (1844); Hurting, Birds 

 Middlesex, p. 195 (1866 : R. Brent). 



Scolopax noveboracensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. 

 Om. ii. p. 723 (1790) ; Wilson, Amer. Orn. vii. p. 45, pi. 58. fig. 1 

 (1813); Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds,?. 398 (1831: Saskat- 

 chewan Plains) ; Audub. Orn. Biogr. iv. p. 285, pi. 335 (1838) ; 

 id. B. Amer. 8vo, vi. p. 10, pi. 351 (1843) ; Giraud, B. Long Isl. 

 p. 263 (1844) ; Putnam, Proc. Ess. Inst. i. p. 218 (1856 : Massa- 

 chusetts). 



Scolopax leucophaea (nee Lath.), Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. hi. 

 p. 358 (1816) ; id. Gal. Ois. ii. p. 110, pi. 241 (1834). 



Macrorhamphus griseus, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamin. etc. Brit. Mus. 

 p. 31 (1816: Devonshire); Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xiL 

 p. 61, pi. 9 (1824) ; Jard.ed Wilson's Amer. Om. ii. p. 337 (1832) 

 Je?iyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr. p. 207 (1835) ; Gould, B. Eur. iv 

 pi. 323 (1837) ; Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. $N. Amer. p. 52 (1838) 

 Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 109 (1844: Devonshire) ; id. Gen 

 B. hi. p. 582 (1846) ; Schomb. Reis. Guian. iii. p. 758 (1848) 

 Reichenb. Grail, tab. ccclvi. figs. 2793-95 (1850) ; 3Iacgill. Brit 

 B. iv. p. 275 (1852) ; Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 579 (1856) ; Baird, B. 

 N. Amer. p. 712 (1858) ; Cooper $f Suckley, N. H. Washington 

 Territory, p. 238 (1860) ; Scl. 8f Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 277 (San 

 Geronimo, Guatemala) ; Lawr. Ami. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 273 (1861 : 

 Cuba) ; Reinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 11 (Greenland) ; Cones, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861, p. 229 (Labrador) ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 

 vii. p. 479 (1862 : Panama) ; Boardm. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 ix. p. 128 (1862 : Maine) ; Gundl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 85 (Cuba) ; 

 Verrill, Proc. Ess. Inst. iii. p. 158 (1862: Maine); Gray, Cat. 

 Brit. B. p. 172 (1863) ; Blahist. Ibis, 1863, p. 131 (Fort Carlton) ; 

 Allen, Proc. Ess. Inst. iv. p. 86 (1864 : Springfield, Massachusetts) ; 

 Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 101 (1864 : Sombrero) ; Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 191 (Guatemala) ; Dresser, t. c. p. 313 (Southern 

 Texas) ; Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1866, p. 97 (Ari- 

 zona) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, pp. 36, 37 (Matamoras) ; Mcllwr. 

 Proc. Ess. Inst. v. p. 92 (1866 : Hamilton, Canada West) ; IAot 



