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982 WASHINGTON HYPOTHETICAL LIST. 
with lengthened bare space behind; general color of back and wings green, the interscapulars 
lanceolate and tapering, with a glaucous or slaty cast and with white shafts; middle coverts 
bright bottle-green edged with buff; greater coverts dull bottle-green edged with whitish; 
the primaries dusky slate, with glaucous and greenish reflections; the inner primaries and 
secondaries narrowly tipped with white; underparts slaty or brownish y, with buffy or 
ochraceous washing, and irregularly outcropping white; bill dark green above, yellow below; 
iris and lores yellow; feet and legs ome iy. yellow. /mmature: cipital crest not so long; 
crown streaked with cinnamon; chestnut of neck not so deep, reduced in extent; back 
feathers unmodified, plain, glossy greenish; wing-coverts broadly margined with ochraceous, 
some of the feathers. with the outer scapulars, having wedge-shaped tips of buffy or whitish; 
underparts whitish, striped with greenish- and reddish-dusky, most heavily on sides of breast 
ay neck. Length 16.00-22,00; wing 7.25; tail 2.70; bill 2.47; tarsus 2.05; middle toe and 
claw 2.00. 
Recognition Marks.—Crow size; chestnut and greenish coloration above, 
Nesting.—Nest: a platform of sticks placed at moderate heights in bushes of swamp 
or trees of neighboring orchards, etc. Eggs: 3-6, pale greenish blue. Av. size, 1,50 x 1.14. 
Season: May; one brood. 
General Range.—Temperate North America from Ontario and Oregon, southward to 
Colombia, Venezuela, and the West Indies; Bermuda. 
Supposed Occurrence in Washington.—-irdea virescens, J. M. Keck, Wilson Bulle- 
tin No. 47, June, 1904, p. 34.—"“Not common summer resident.” Mr. Keck does not feel 
absolutely sure of his records but in view of the bird’s known occurrence in the vicinity of 
Portland he may well have been correct. 
H. No. 39. 
DOWITCHER. 
A. O. U. No, 31. Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.). 
Description.—Similar to M. scolopaceus (q. v. p. 648) but smaller, with underparts 
more lightly colored (less rufescent) and neck and breast with more of dusky speckling. 
Length of adult 10.00-11.00; wing 2.65; bill 2.30; tarsus 1.40. 
General Range.—North America at large, or perhaps casual west of the Rockies; 
breeding in high latitudes; south in winter to Brazil. 
Supposed Occurrence in Washington.—Recorded by Merrill as taken on the St. 
Joseph marshes of northern Idaho: hence strongly inferential for Washington. The carly 
records (Baird, Cooper and Suckley, etc.) based on specimens still extant prove to have 
referred to M. scolopaceus. 
H. No. 40. 
BLACK-NECKED STILT. 
A. O. U. No. 225. Himantopus mexicanus (Mull). 
Description.—Adult male: A white spot above eye and another below eye nearly 
meeting behind; forehead, region about the base of bill. rump, upper tail-coverts, and entire 
underparts, except lining of wing, white; tail ashy gray above; remaining plumage glossy, 
greenish black; bill black; eye red; legs and feet lake red (drying yellow). Adult female: 
Similar to adult male, but back and scapulars margined with buffy or whitish; the black 
of head and neck finely marked with the same. Length 15.00; wing 9.00; tail 3.00; bill 2.60; 
tarsus 4.20; exposed portion of tibia 3.25. 
General Range.—Formerly the United States at large, now chiefly confined to the 
western interior, south to tropical South America. Breeds in U. S. range from Oregon to 
Texas, 
Supposed Occurrence in Washington.—Recorded by Newberry as occurring north 
to the Columbia. It still breeds sparingly in southern Oregon and it may well have nested 
at an earlier day about the lakes of the Big Bend country in Washington. 
H. No. 41. 
NELSON'S GULL, 
A. O. U. No. 46. Larus nelsoni Hensh. : : 
Description.—Most like L. glaucescens (q. v. p. 713) but mantle lighter, as light as in 
glaucus; the tips of the primaries heavily crossed with slate-gray—hence darker in this 
regard than gloucescens, “A dubious gull” (Coues), Evidently difficult to distinguish from 
immature Glaucous-wings in which the gray of wing-tips is darker than in adults. 
Range.—"Coast of Norton Sound, Alaska.” 
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