116 KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 
* Group 4. Wing, 5.50 to 6.75 inches long. 
Section 1. Toes, four, a small web between outer and 
middle toe; bill, over 1.80. 
Upper tail coverts and axillars, white, spotted or barred with 
dusky: bill, nearly straight. 
Macrorhamphus griseus. Red=breasted Snipe, or Dowitcher. 
See No. 188. 
Macrorhamphus scolopaceus. Western Red-breasted Snipe, or 
Long=billed Dowitcher. 
; See No. 189. 
Macrorhamphus griseus. se 
Section 2. Toes, four, a small web between outer and 
middle toe; bill, under 1.80. 
Tarsus and middle toe together, more than 2.60 inches long: 
outer primary, slate brown, without bars: rump and upper tail coverts, 
white, more or less barred with brown; legs, yellow. 
Totanus tripes. Summer Yellow-leg. 
See No. 208. 
Totanus flavipes. 
Stilt Sandpiper. 
Tarsus and middle toe, together, less than 2.603 upper tail coverts, white, or white barred with 
black ; outer primary, slate brown, without bars. 
Micropalama himantopus. Stilt Sandpiper. 
see No. 190. 
* For directions for measurement, see page 9 
