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SOOLOPAOID^— SNIPE FAMILY. 



This family includes a great variety of forms, such as the least Sandpiper, 

 the smallest, to the great Long-billed Curlew, the largest. They are very widely 

 distributed over the whole world, and Ontario comes in for her fair share. We 

 have here in Ontario the following forms which require the protection of our 

 game laws, viz : — 



Philohela Minor, — American Woodcock. 



Gallinago Wilsoni, — American, or Wilson's Snipe 



Macrorhamphus Griseus, — Red-breasted Snipe. 



Tringa Maculata, — Pectoral Sandpiper, 



Limosa fedoa, — Marbled Godwit. 



Limosa haemastica, — Hudsonian Godwit. 



Totanuf! Melanoleucus, — Telltale, Greater Yellow-legs. 



Totanus Flavipes, — Yellow-legs. 



Bartramia Longicauda,^Upland Plover, Field Plover. 



Numenius Longirostris, — Long billed Curlew. 



Numenius Hudsonicus, — Hudsonian Curlew. 



Numenius Borealis, — Eskimo Curlew. 



Charadrius dominicus, — Golden Plover. 



The last is not a snipe but a plover. 



