RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 



LIMICOL.H. 



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SCOLOPACJBJ?. 



Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmelin*). 

 THE KED-BEEASTED SNIPE. 

 Macrorhamphus griseus. 



Macroruamphus, Leach f. — Beak long, straight, rounded, rather slender in 

 the middle, the tip dilated, slightly incurved and rugose. Nostrils lateral, bassal. 

 Legs with four toes, the outer toes connected at their base by a membrane ; 

 hinder toe touching the ground only at the tip ; lower part of the tibia naked. 

 Wings long and pointed. . Tail-feathers twelve in number. 



The Eed-breasted or Brown Snipe is an American 

 species wbicli was first made known as a straggler to Britain 

 by Colonel Montagu, who described it in bis Ornitbological 

 Dictionary, and gave a figure of it in its winter plumage in 

 bis Supplement. Tbis example, wbicb was killed in Devon- 

 sbire in tbe montb of October, is presei-ved in tbe British 

 Museum. According to Dr. Edward Moore (Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 1837, p. 321), a second Devonshire example is in tbe collec- 

 tion of Mr. Drew. A young bird was shot near Carlisle on 



* Srolopax f/risca, Ginclin, Sywt. Nat. i. p. G58 (1788). 

 tCat. Mamni. and Birds Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1816). 



