AVES. 69 



LIMICOLAE. 



SCOLOPACIDAE. 



ME. Common migrant and summer resident; possibly winters. 

 (Mar. 10) Mar. 23-Nov. 30 (Dec. 18) (Feb., two instances). 

 Eggs, April 26-May 19. 



N. H. Uncommon migrant and summer resident. Late 

 Mar. -Oct. Eggs, May 10. 



VT. Uncommon migrant and summer resident. Mar. 27-Oct. 

 Eggs, May 4. 



MASS. Common migrant and uncommon summer resident; 

 rare in winter. Mar. 4-Nov. 25 (winter). Eggs, April 11-May 6. 



R. I. Common migrant and now a rare summer resident. 

 Mar .-Dec. 4. Eggs, April 5-May 17. 



CONN. Common migrant, uncommon summer and winter 

 resident. Feb. 26-Nov.; winter. Eggs, (Mar. 30) April 3- 

 June 3; July 20 (2d brood). 



133. GALLINAGO DELICATA (Ord) A. O. U. check-list. 



Wilson's snipe; Alewife-bird; Common snipe; English snipe; 

 Jack snipe. 



Scolopax delicata Ord, Wilson's Ornith., 1825, vol. 9, p. ccxviii. 

 " KENTUCKY, .... ILLINOIS, . . . .PENNSYLVANIA." 



Scolopax wilsonii Temm. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1842, 

 vol. 5, p. 339, pi. 350. Egg, Capen, 1886, pi. 19, fig. 3. 



Fresh and brackish meadows and marshes; nests on the ground. 



ME. Common migrant and rare summer resident. April 19- 

 May 15; summer; Sept.-Nov. 15. 



N. H. Common migrant, mainly coastwise; very rare winter 

 resident (Nashua). Mar.-May 7; July 22-mid-Dec. (winter). 



VT. Uncommon migrant and rare winter resident (Rutland 

 Co.); ? "summer resident/' 



MASS. Common migrant, rare winter resident; rare and 

 irregular summer resident (at Carlisle, Concord). (Mar. 8) Mar. 

 20-May 18; (summer); Aug. 1-Nov. 30 (winter). 



