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or slat}-, barred with white. Summer adult: Sides of head and neck, throat, fore- 

 neck, chest, breast, and sides (sometimes entire lower parts), light cinnamon, usu- 

 ally more or less flecked, speckled, or barred with dusky ; top of head and hind-neck 

 streaked with pale cinnamon, or bufFy, and duskj- ; back, scapulars, etc., varied 

 with dusky and light cinnamon, or buft'y. Winter plumage:^ Belly, anal region, 

 and indistinct superciliarj- stripe, white ; rest of plumage plain ash-gra}', intermixed 

 more or less with white on breast and sides ; wing-coverts bordered with whitish. 

 Young ;' Back, scapulars, and tertials varied with blackish and light brown or day- 

 color, the latter chiefl\' along edges of feathers; lower parts soiled white, tinged, 

 especially on breast, with pale brownish, the chest and sides indistinctly speckled 

 with dusky. 



rt'. TTcb between inner and middle toes very indistinct ; culmen not more than 3.00, 

 wing not more than 6.00, and tarsus not more than 1.75 ; lower back entirely 

 white ; axillars barred to tips with dusky, and under wing-coverts much 

 varied with same; tertials, scapulai-s, etc., more or less barred with light 

 cinnamon or buffy, in summer plumage. (Subgenus Macrorhamphus.) 

 bK Length about 10.00-11.00, wing 5.25-5.90 (average 5.65), culmen 2.00-2.55 

 (2.30), tarsus 1.20-1.55 (1.35), middle toe .90-1.05 (.95). Summer adult 

 with belly whitish, the breast and sides speckled with dusk3^ Eggs 

 1.65 X 1.13, light bufFy olive, distinctly spotted and speckled, especially 

 on larger end, with deep brown. Hab. Eastern North America, breed- 

 ing far northward ; Nushagak River, Alaska (straggler?). 



231. M. griseus (Gmel.). Dowitcher. 

 6'. Length 11.00-12.50, wing 5.40-6.00 (average 5.74). culmen 2.10-3.00 (2.72), 

 tarsus 1.35-1.75 (1.58), middle toe .95-1.15 (1.01). Summer adidt with 

 cinnamon-color of lower parts deeper and much more uniform, covering 

 entire belly ; sides distinctly barred with dusky. I^ggs 1.74 X 1-21, pale 

 olive-grayish, boldly spotted, especially over larger end, with deep van- 

 dyke-brown. JIab. North America in general (except northeastern por- 

 tion), but chiefly the "Western Province, breeding in Alaska, etc., north 

 to Arctic Ocean... 232. M. scolopaceus (Say). Long-billed Dowitcher. 

 a'. Web between inner and middle toes verj- large (almost equal in extent to that 

 between outer and middle toes) ; culmen more than 3.00, wing more than 

 6.00, and tarsus more than 1.75 ; lower back dusky, the feathers edged and 

 margined with white ; axillai-s white, barred or spotted toward base only 

 with dusky, and under wMng-coverts almost entirely white ; tertials, scapu- 

 lars, etc., edged, but not barred, with pale cinnamon, in summer plumage. 

 (Subgenus Pseudoscolopax Blyth.') 



M. semipalmatus (.jF.Kn.). Semipalmated Snipe.' 



' Winter plumage and joung of M. temipnimalua not seen by me, and perhaps difTcrent in style of colora- 

 tion from the same stages of the American species. 



' Pieudoicolopax BLrrn, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. ivii. 1S48, 252. Type, ^fltcrorhamphu^ ttmipalmalut 

 Jerd. 



' Pieudotcolopax ttmipahnatui "Jerd." ELTTn, Jour. As. Soc. Ecng. xvii. IS 18, 252. 



