Lonepeak. GRALLATORES. MACRORAMPHUS. 103 
frequent and arbitrary divisions were less likely to burthen 
the memory than the imposition of a generic title. 
The only species of the genus hitherto met with is a na- 
tive of the northern part of the continent of America; and 
the two specimens killed in Europe can only be regarded as 
visitants accidentally driven thither. 
BROWN LONGBEAK. 
Macrorampnus Griszus, Leach. 
PEATE, XM V. Fie.)2. 
Macroramphus griseus, Leach, Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 31.—Séeph. Shaw’s Zool. 
12. 61. pl. 9. 
Becassine ponctuée, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 679. 
Red-breasted Snipe, Wils. Amer. Ornith. 7. 49. pl. 58. f. 1. 
Brown Longbeak, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 61, pl. 9. 
Scolopax novoboracensis, Gmel. Syst. 1. 658.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 723.) 
sp. 32. 
Totanus novoboracensis, Sabine, Frank. Journ. Appen. 687. 
Red-breasted Snipe, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. p. 368.—Lath. Syn. 5. 153. 26. 
Scolopax grisea, Gmel. Syst. 1. 658.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. 724. sp. 33. Winter 
Brown Snipe, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 369.—Lath. Syn. 5. 154. 28.—Mont. (1 ace 
Ornith. Dict. 2. and plate in Supp.—F/em. Br. Anim. 1. 106. 1. Strag- ea 
gler. 
Summer 
plumage. 
Tue bird now before us belongs to North America, and Very rare 
has been hitherto only twice met with in Europe, one speci- tea 
men having been killed in Sweden, and the other in Eng- 
land, upon the coast of Devonshire. This latter fortunately 
came into the hands of the zealous Monracu, and was thus 
introduced into the list of British birds, as an occasional, 
though very rare visitant. A full description of this species 
is given by Wrtsoy, in his North American Ornithology, 
bearing all the marks of that graphic and characteristic style, 
by which his writings are rendered so generally imteresting. 
From that account, its habits and manners appear to differ 
greatly from those of the true Snipes and Woodcocks, ap- 
proaching much nearer to those of the Godwits and 'Tringas ; 
