ORDER LIMICOLuE. Ill 



winters from northern California, New Mexico, Arkansas, and North 

 Carolina through Central America and West Indies to Colombia and 

 southern Brazil; remains in winter casually and locally north to 

 Washington, Montana, Nebraska, Illinois, and Nova Scotia; acci- 

 dental in Hawaii, Bermuda, and Great Britain. 



[Gallinago media (LATHAM). Great Snipe. [230.1.] 



Scolopax media LATHAM, Suppl. Gen. Synopsis, I, 1787, 292. (Lanca- 

 shire, England.) 



RANGE. Northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds from 

 Prussia, Russia, and Siberia north to beyond latitude 71; winters 

 from the Mediterranean to South Africa; in migration from Great 

 Britain to Persia; accidental in Canada.] 



GENUS MACRORHAMPHUS T. FORSTER. 



Macrorhamphus FORSTER, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 22. Type, by 

 monotypy, Scolopax grisea GMELIN. 



Macrorhamphus griseus (GMELIN). 

 RANGE. North and South America. 



a. Macrorhamphus griseus griseus (GMELIN). Dowitcher. [231.] 



Scolopax grisea GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 658. (Coast of New York.) 



RANGE. Eastern North and South America. Breeding range unknown, 

 but probably northern Ungava; winters from Florida and the West Indies 

 south to northern Brazil; in migration regularly on the Atlantic coast, and 

 occasionally in Illinois, Indiana, and Ontario; accidental in Greenland, 

 Bermuda, Great Britain, and France. 



6. Macrorhamphus griseus scolopaceus (SAY). Long-billed Dowitcher. [232.] 



Limosa scolopacea SAY, in LONG'S Exped., I, 1823, 170. (Near Boyer 

 Creek [near Council Bluffs, Iowa].) 



RANGE. Western North America and South America. Breeds from Point 

 Barrow tc mouth of the Yukon, east to northwestern Mackenzie; winters from 

 Louisiana, Florida, and Mexico south, probably to South America; in migra- 

 tion most abundant in western Mississippi Valley; casual on the Atlantic 

 coast from Massachusetts southward and on the northern coast of eastern 

 Siberia. 



