THE SNIPE. 



THE HUDSONIAN GODWIT. lA/TTbOSd 

 VulgO. KINO-TAILED MABLIN. 



THE BED-BREASTED SNIPE. Scolopax JSToveboracensis. 



VulgO. EOBIN-BREAST, QUAIL SNIPE, DOWITCHER. 



UNDEK the general, and very incorrect appellation of 

 Bay Snipe, and sometimes of Plover, the sea-shore gun- 

 ners, and city fowlers who accompany them for pleasure, 

 are wont to include many totally distinct and different 

 families of waders, each containing several varieties, and 

 all, though in some sort connected, entirely dissimilar in 

 characteristics, plumage, cry and flight, as well as in 

 some peculiarities of habit. 



Of these families, the most remarkable are the Curlew, 

 numenius ; the Godwit, limosa, ; the Sandpiper, i/ringa / 

 the Tattler, totanus ; the Plover, charadrius ; the Snipe, 

 scolopax / the Turnstone, strepsilas / the Sanderling, ca- 

 lidris ; the Avoset, recurvvrosta / and the Stilt, himanto- 

 pus ; all of which at some period of the year are visiters 

 or temporary inhabitants of some portion of the Atlantic 



