36 Mr, H. E. Dresser on the Birds of Southern Texas. 



lands near San Antonio, both of which I succeeded in shoot- 

 ing. 



Bill and legs dark olive-brown ; iris dark brown. 



Gallinago wilsoni (Temminck). Wilson's Snipe. 



I found Snipe very common near San Antonio during the 

 winter, and bad some capital sport, the more so as, nearly every 

 one being absent with the army, I had the shooting almost to 

 myself. I shot the last one on the 20th of April, not having 

 seen any during the previous week. 



Macrouhamphus griseus (Gmelin). Brown Snipe. 



On the 29th of June, 1863, I first noticed a few birds of this 

 species at the lagoon near Matamoras ; and from that time on- 

 wards they continued to arrive, some migrating further south, 

 but a considerable number remained in that neighbourhood. 

 I shot them both in the red and grey plumage ; and so numerous 

 were they in July and August that I shot twenty-five one morn- 

 ing before breakfast. They go in flocks of from ten to thirty, 

 and struck me as being more of the Sandpiper than the Snipe 

 in their habits, as I invariably found them on the shores of the 

 lagoons, often in company with Sandpipers, and never in the 

 same localities as Gallinago wilsoni. 1 generally found the 

 Stilt-Sandpiper {Micropalama hhnantopus) in company with this 

 species at the Matamoras lagoon. 



I only observed the Brown Snipe on one occasion near San 

 Antonio ; and that was after a heavy fall of rain, in July 1864, 

 when I saw several at a pond. 



Bill blackish-brown ; legs light greenish-brown ; iris dark 

 brown. 



Tringa maculata, Vieillot. Pectoral Sandpiper. 



A few Pectoral Sandpipers appeared near Matamoras in July 

 1863, not frequenting the lagoons, but oftener found on the 

 banks of the Rio Grande or at small pools after rain. In April 

 1864 I observed several small flocks of four or five at the water- 

 holes near San Antonio, and in May shot three at Howard's 

 Rancho on the Medina River. 



Male (2nd May, 1864). Bill greenish-black, olive-green at 

 base; legs clay-yellow ; ii'is dark brown ; testes much developed. 



