TEREKIAMA CRORHA MPHUS 795 



$ ad. (Archangel). Upper parts grey lined with blackish, and a dis- 

 tinct black line along each side of the middle of the back ; least wing-coverts 

 and quills black, the latter washed with grey, the secondaries and inner 

 primaries tipped with white ; tail grey with a faint coppery gloss ; under 

 parts white ; the sides of the head, neck, and breast striped with greyish 

 brown, the last tinged with grey ; bill curved upwards, blackish, with the base 

 of lower mandible greenish yellow ; legs pale yellowish green ; iris blackish 

 grey. Culmen T8, wing 5 '3, tail 2 '4, tarsus 1-05 inch. Sexes alike. In 

 winter the upper parts lack the black, it being only faintly indicated, and 

 the under parts are white, the sides of neck and breast washed with grey, 

 and the sides of the head streaked with grey. 



Hob. Northern Russia, having only once been recorded from 

 so far west as Finland ; of rare occurrence in Germany and Italy ; 

 migrating south through Eastern Europe to South Africa ; 

 Northern Siberia, migrating south through Japan, China, and 

 India to Australia in winter. 



By many authors the present species has been united to the 

 Godwits, but it is essentially a Sandpiper, in habits most nearly 

 resembling T. hypoleucus, and its call-note is a clear, loud, 

 musical whistle. It frequents river banks and the shores of 

 small lakes and ponds, and feeds on worms, insects, &c., like the 

 Sandpipers. Its nest, which is a mere depression in the ground, 

 is usually situated in open places near bushes, and its 4 eggs, 

 which are usually deposited in June, are dull buff with purplish 

 grey shell-, and purplish brown surface- spots and blotches, and 

 measure about 1/53 by 1*7. 



MACRORHAMPHUS, Leach, 1816. 



1097. RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 

 MACRORHAMPHUS GRISEUS. 



Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788) ; Gould, B. 

 of E. iv. p. 323 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iv. pi. 76 ; Dresser, viii. p. 187, 

 pi. 571 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. xxiv. p. 394 ; Tacz. F. 0. Sib. 0. 

 p. 951 ; Ridgway, p. 151 ; Seebohm, B. Jap. Emp. p. 330; Saun- 

 ders, p. 621 ; Lilford, v. p. 71, pi. 29 ; Poynting, p. 123, pi. 27 ; N. 

 noveboracensis (Gmel.), ut supra ; Wilson, Am. Orn. vii. p. 45, 

 pi. 58, fig. 1 ; M. scolopaceus, Lawr. Ann. Lye. New York, v. p. 4, 

 pi. 1 (1852) ; Kidgway,p. 151. 



ad. (N. America). Crown, nape, and upper parts varied black and 

 rusty rufous ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, tinged with rufous and 

 barred with black ; quills blackish, the short secondaries and larger wing- 

 coverts dark grey, margined and tipped with white ; tail broadly barred 



