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the following statement in the Fauna Boreali Americana, we may 

 conclude that it proceeds as far North as Hudson's Bay. 



" Dr. Richardson states that a specimen of a Snipe from Hud- 

 son's Bay, in the British Museum, possesses all the distinctive 

 characters ascribed by the Prince of Musignano to his Scolopax 

 Wilsonii, of which we have no authenticated examples." 



I have been informed that it has been found breef^ing on Long 

 Island, but I have never met with its nest in that vicinity. In 

 autumn it remains with us until the ground becomes frozen, when 

 it passes on to the South. When migrating, it flies high, uttering 

 at intervals a bleating note. 



SCOLOPAX NOVEBORACENSIS— GMEL. 



RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 



Red-breasted Snipe, Scolopax Noveboraccnsis, VVjIs. Amer. Orn. 



Scolopax grisea, Bonap Syn. 



Scolopax Noveboraceiisis, New York Godwit, Sw. & Rich. 



Brown or Red breasted Snipe, Nutt. M.in 



Red-breasted Snipe, Scolopax Noveboraccnsis, Aud. Orn. Biog. 



Specific Character — Spring plumage, upper parts brownish-black, 

 variegated with light brownish-red ; lower parts dull orange-red, 

 abdomen paler, spoUed and barred with black ; rump white ; the 

 tail feathers and the upper and low^er tail coverts alternately barred 

 with white and black. In autumn the upper parts are brownish 

 gray ; the lower parts grayish-white ; the tail feathers and the 

 upper and lower tail coverts the same as in spring. Adult with the 

 bill toward the end black, lighter at the base ; top of the head, 

 back of the neck, scapulars, tertials, and fore part of the back, 

 blackish-brown, variegated with ferruginous ; secondaries and 

 wing coverts clove brown, the latter edged with white — the former 

 tipped with the same ; hind part of back white ; the rump marked 

 with roundish spots of blackish-brown ; upper tail coverts dull 

 white, barred with black ; tail feathers crossed with numerous 

 black bands — their tips white ; loral band dusky, the space be- 

 tween which and the medial band on the fore part of the head, 

 grayish whise, tinged with ferruginous, and slightly touched with 



