LONGBEAK. GBALLATORES. MACRORAMPHUS. 103 



frequent and arbitrary divisions were less likely to burthen 

 the memory than the imposition of a generic title. 



The only species of the genus hitherto met with is a na- 

 tive of the northern part of the continent of America ; and 

 the two specimens killed in Europe can only be regarded as 

 visitants accidentally driven thither. 



BROWN LONGBEAK. 



MACRORAMPHUS GRISEUS, Leach. 



PLATE XXIV. FIG. 2. 



Macroramphus griseus, Leach, Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 31. Steph. Shaw's Zool. 



12. 61. pi. 9. 



Becassine ponctue'e, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 679. 

 Red-breasted Snipe, Wils. Amer. Ornith. 7- 49. pi. 58. f. 1. 

 Brown Longbeak, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 61, pi. 9. 

 Scolopax novoboracensis, Gmel. Syst. 1. 658 Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 723-1 



sp. 32. f Summer 



Totanus novoboracensis, Saline, Frank. Journ. Appen. 687. f plumage. 



Red-breasted Snipe, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. p. 368. Lath. Syn. 5. 153. 26. ) 

 Scolopax grisea, Gmel. Syst. 1. 658 Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 724. sp. 33. } Winter 

 Brown Snipe, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 369 Lath. Syn. 5. 154. 28 Mont. f Dlumaae . 



Ornith. Diet. 2. and plate in Supp. Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 106. 1. Strag- f * 



gler. J 



THE bird now before us belongs to North America, and Very rare 



. visitant. 



has been hitherto only twice met with in Europe, one speci- 

 men having been killed in Sweden, and the other in Eng- 

 land, upon the coast of Devonshire. This latter fortunately 

 came into the hands of the zealous MONTAGU, and was thus 

 introduced into the list of British birds, as an occasional, 

 though very rare visitant. A full description of this species 

 is given by WILSON, in his North American Ornithology, 

 bearing all the marks of that graphic and characteristic style, 

 by which his writings are rendered so generally interesting. 

 From that account, its habits and manners appear to differ 

 greatly from those of the true Snipes and Woodcocks, ap- 

 proaching much nearer to those of the Godwits and Tringas ; 



