GRALLJ3 — SCOLOPACIDA: — SCOLOPAX. 
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(EXTRA-LIMITAL.) 
S. drummondi. (Rich. F. B. A. Vol. 2, p. 400.) Brownish black above, striped on the neck and 
back with rufous. Rump and tail-coverts greenish barred with black, tipped with white. Beneath 
dull brown, with central spots of dark brown. Length, 11*5; bill, 2 -5. Northern regions. 
S leucurus. (Id. ib. p. 501.) Tail of sixteen feathers; the lateral ones pure white: three basal black 
bands on the outer web. Belly transversely banded. Northern regions. 
GENUS RUSTICOLA. Vieillot. 
Bill robust, straight, nearly double the length of the tarsus, deeply grooved on each side of 
the upper mandible, slightly depressed towards the end (which is blunt), and longer than 
the lower one. Head large. Eyes large. Tibia entirely feathered: legs short. Toes 
cleft to the base. Hind nail obtuse, not projecting beyond the claw. Wings short; the 
first three quills very narrow; the fourth and fifth longest, subequal. 
Obs. This group, which was first separated from Scolopax by Vieillot, and subsequently 
by Nuttall under the name of Microptera, differs essentially from any of the species 
belonging to the first named genus. It contains at present but one American authenticated 
species. 
THE AMERICAN WOODCOCK. 
Rusticola minor. 
PLATE CI1I. FIG. 231. 
(STATE COLLECTION.) 
Scolopax minor , Gmelin. Little Woodcock , Pennant, Arct. Zool. Vol. 2, p. 463, pi. 19. 
&. id. Wilson, Am. Om. Vol. 6, p. 40, pi. 48, fig. 2. 
jST. (Rusticola) id. Bonaparte, Ann. Lyc. Vol. 2, p. 331. 
S. id. Audubon, Birds of Am. Vol. 6, p. 15, pi. 352. Nuttall, Man. Orn. Vol. 2, p. 195. Giraud, Birds of 
Long island, p. 269. 
Characteristics. Hind head black, with three narrow pale rufous bars; beneath pale buff 
or chesnut, not barred. Quills plain brown. Length, 11 • 0. 
Description. Bill straight, knobbed and slightly drooping at the tip, 2 - 9 long. Feathers 
of the flanks loosely webbed. Tail short, wedge-shaped. Eyes large, and near the summit 
of the head. 
Color. Fore part of the head brownish ash; all above black, varied with reddish and grey. 
Wing-coverts rufous, barred obscurely with brown. Tail above black, bordered narrowly 
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