SCOLOPACIDAi—SNIPE FAMILY. 
‘This family includes a great variety of forms, such as the least Sandpiper, 
; i the smallest, to the great Long-billed Curlew, the largest. They are very widely 
4 distributed over the whole world, and Ontario comes in for her fair share. We 
have here in Ontario the following forms which require the protection of our 
game laws, viz :— 
Philohela Minor,—American Woodcock. 
Gallinago Wilsoni,—American, or Wilson’s Snipe 
Macrorhamphus Griseus,—Red-breasted Snipe. 
Tringa Maculata,—Pectoral Sandpiper. 
Limosa fedoa,—Marbled Godwit. 
: Me Limosa haemastica,—Hudsonian Godwit. 
. Totanus Melanoleucus,—Telltale, Greater Yellow-legs. 
Totanus Flavipes,— Yellow-legs. 
Bartramia Longicauda,—Upland Plover, Field Plover. 
Numenius Longirostris,—Long billed Curlew. 
Numenius Hudsonicus,—Hudsonian Curlew. 
Numenius Borealis,—Eskimo Curlew. 
Charadrius dominicus,—Golden Plover. 
The last is not a snipe but a plover. 
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