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ZOOLOCY— BIUDS. 



marshy places appeared to be the only resorts hi tlie neighborhood ; for 

 after being absent for a few moments they invariably returned to the same 

 spots, and resumed their feeding. 



Eam. SCOLOPACIDAE : Snipes. 



GALLINAGO WILSONI, (Teium.). 

 Tl'^ilson's Snipe. 



Scolopux tcilnoni, Temm., PI. Color., v, pi. Ixviii (in text). — Nkwh. P. K. U. Kop., vi, 

 18.37, 100.— IlKEKM., P. It. It. Piep., X, pt. iv, 1859, GO. 



GaUinago u-ilsonii, Bd., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, G. — Id., Birds N. A., 1858, 

 710. — Id., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1S5!>, Bird.s, 25. — Kennerly, 

 P. K. E. Kep., Whipple's lioute, x, 1850, 34.— Xantus, Proc. Aciul. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1859, 102 (Fort Tejon, Cal.).— Oeney, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1859, 108 (New Mexico).— Coop. & Suckl., P. P. Ii. Pep., xii, pt. ii, 

 18G0, 2:37.— Hayd., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, xii, 18G2, 174.— CoUES, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 18fiG, 97.— Stev., U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., 1870, 4GG 

 (Wyoming). — CouES, Key N. A. Birds, 1872, 2G2, f. IGi. — Snow, Birds Kan., 

 1872, 1.3.— Meeriam, U. S. Geol. Snrv. Terr., 1872, 701.— Yarrow & IIen- 

 SHAW, Rep. Orn. Specs., 1872, Wheeler'.s Exped., 1874, 28 —Allen, Bui. 

 Mus. Conip. Zool., 1872, 181.— CoUKS, Birds Northwest, 1874, 47.5. — UiDCr., 

 An. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., x, 1874, 383.— Henshaw, Pep. Oiu. Specs., 187.!, 

 Wheeler's Exped., 1874, GS, 144. 



Wilson's Snipe is of common occurrence throughout the Middle Region, 

 and also in New Mexico and Arizona. Mr. Ridgway found it in Parley's Park, 

 Utah, all tlu-ough the summer ; and thus it seems likely that it breeds here, 

 finding in this elevated district an equivalent for the liigher latitudes it usually 

 seeks for the purposes of reproduction. Farther south, I am inclined to 

 think it occurs only as a migrant, or at least does not breed, tliough 

 possibly it may find in the Avarin sheltered spots of these southern Tci-ri- 

 tories favorable winter resorts. In the neifjhborhood of certain warm 



