ki:y 'io 'iiii': waiici^ iurds of ilokida. 



Family SCOLOPACID^E. Snipes, Sandpipers, etc. 



Genus PHILOMELA (^ray. 



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PHILOMELA niNOR {Gwc/.). 

 American Woodcock. 



Adult : Dill long, corrugated near the end ; upper parts variegated witli tawny rufous brown 

 and black ; head rufous brown, banded on the occiput with alternate bands of black and tawny- 

 brown ; a line of black from the eye to the bill ; a narrow patch on the sides of the lower head, 

 blackish ; throat pale rufous or rufous white ; under parts of the body pale rufous : quills 

 brownish ; tail feathers dusky tipped with ash ; bill pale brown, yellowish at the base : legs red- 

 dish ; bill light brown ; paler and yellowish at base. 



Length, 11.50; Wing, 5.45 ; Tarsus, 1.30; Bill, 2.90 to 3.05. 



Common on the Atlantic coast from Labrador 

 breeding, as a rule, north of the Carolinas. It is 

 Florida in winter and is very abundant in the swamps of Alabama and 

 Louisiana at some seasons. The eggs are usuall}^ four, mottled and spotted 

 with brown. 



to the Gulf of Mexico, 

 occasionally observed in 



Genus GALLINAGO Leach. 



QALLINAGO DELICATA {OnP). 

 Wilson's Snipe. English Snipe. 



Bill long and straight, being slightly enlarged near the tip and sliowing numerous small pits; 

 no iveb on iocs ; general upper parts dark brown, tawny brown, pale yellow, dull white; top of 

 the head black witli middle stripe of tawny l^-own : outer web of first primary white ; greater 



