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50. Family Scolopacid.e. The Snipe. 



171 (228). Philohela minor (Gmelin). Woodcock. 



Summer resident in moist areas throughout the basin. They 

 arrive in the spring the last of March and leave in the fall during 

 the first two weeks of November. The woodcock is slowly in- 

 creasing in numbers about Ithaca. Mr. John Vann tells us that in 

 the fall of 1908 all the individuals of several localities succeeded in 

 migrating without any loss from shooting. He attributes the in- 

 crease partly to the growth of cover in the uplands where they are 

 found during the fall. 



172 (230). Gallinago delicata (Ord). Wilson's snipe. 

 Common transient between April 12 and May 20. In 1908 one 



was recorded on April 3. They are most abundant during the latter 

 part of April. Our autumn records fall between September 22 and 

 November 18. The downy young ^were found at Meridian, N. Y., 

 by E. G. Taber and F. S. Wright states that it is a rare breeder in 

 the marshes at Cayuga. 



173 (231). Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmelin). Dowitcher. 

 There is a specimen in the collection of Foster Parker taken on 



Cayuga lake but without other data. From August 18 to 26, 1908 

 Foster Parker shot one and saw five others. 



174 (233). Micropalama himantopus (Bonaparte). Stilt sandpiper. 

 Foster Parker shot a specimen at Cayuga October 10, 1907, in a 



flock of red-backed sandpipers. August 25, 1908, E. H. Eaton took 

 a specimen at Cayuga and two more on September 20. On Sep- 

 tember 28, 1908, A. A. Allen and J. T. Lloyd shot a specimen at the 

 north end of the lake. 



175 (234). Tringa canutus Linnaeus. Knot. 



Two specimens were shot at Cayuga by Foster Porker, August 

 30, 1908. Air. E. H. Eaton and Mr. L. A. Fuertes report them as 

 frequently seen at Cayuga in the fall. It is altogether probable that 

 this species is not an uncommon transient. 



176 (239). Pisobia maculata (Vieillot). Pectoral sandpiper. 

 Common transient at the north end of the lake but rare at the 



south end. L. A. Fuertes has taken one specimen at Ithaca on each 



