RiDGWAY on Macrorhamphus grisetis, etc. 159 



Scolopax noveboracensis, Gmel., S. N., I, 1788, 658 (based on the Red- 

 breasted Snipe of Pennant and Latham). — Wils., Am. Orn,, VII, 1813, 

 45, pi. 58, f. 1. — Sw. &RicH., F. B. A., IT, 1831, 398. — Aud., Orn. 

 Biog., IV, 1838, 288, pi. 399; Synop., 1839, 249; B. Am., VI, 1843, 10, 

 pi. 351. 



Scolopax (3Iacrorhamphus) grisea^ Boxap., Synop., 1828, 330, No. 267. 

 — NuTT., Man., II, 1834, 181. 



Scolopax puykullii, Nilsson, Orn. Suec, II, 106. 



Totanus ferrugineicollis, Vieill., Enc, Meth., Ill, 1823,1099 (based on 

 the Red-breasted Snipe of Pennant and Latham). 



Hab. — Atlantic Coast of the United States, breeding farther north- 

 ward. No specimens seen from west of the Alleghanies. 



b. var. scolopaceus. 

 The Red-bellied Snipe. 



] Limosa scolopacea, Say, Long's Exped., II, 1823, 170. 



Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y., V, 1852, 4, pi. 1 

 (Long Island). — Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am., 1858, 712. — Baird, Cat. 

 N. Am. B., 1859, No. 525. 



Macrorhamphus griseus, var. scolopaceus, CouES, Check List, 1873, No. 

 415 a. 



Scolopax longirostris, Bell, Ann. Lye. N. Y., V, 1852, 3. 



'^ Macj-orhamphus griseus" (part), CouES, Key, 1872, 253; B. N. W., 

 1874, 476. 



Hab. — North America in general, but chiefly the western portions of 

 the continent ; east to the Mississippi Valley, north to Alaska, and south 

 to South America and the West Indies. Casual along the Atlantic coast 

 of the United States. 



Sp. Ch. — About the size of Gallinago wilsoni, or larger. Bill long, 

 compressed, flattened and expanded towards the end, where (in dried 

 specimens) punctulated and corrugated. Shaft of first primary strong, 

 pure white. Axillars, tail-coverts, and lower jmrt of rumjj, white, barred, 

 or transversely spotted, with slate-color ; upper part of rump white, usually 

 immaculate. Tail slaty or dusky, barred with white (or, in summer, adult, 

 with pale cinnamon on the middle feathers). Adult in summer : Head, 

 neck, and lower parts light cinnamon (the abdomen sometimes whitish), 

 the foreneck and sides of breast speckled, the sides and crissum barred or 

 speckled with dusky. Upper parts mixed black, light cinnamon, and white, 

 the former jirevailing. Adidt in winter : Belly and anal region white, 

 usually unspotted ; rest of the plumage nearly uniform ash-gray, somewhat 

 intermixed with white on the breast and sides ; wing-coverts bordered 

 with whitish ; a whitish superciliary stripe. Young, first plumage : Back, 

 scapulars and tertials variegated black and light clay-color, the latter 

 chiefly on the edges of the feathers ; lower pai'ts dirty white, soiled with 

 dull buff or pale clay-color, especially across the breast ; jugulum and 

 sides usually indistinctly speckled with dusky. 



