No. 4.] COUES'S OKNITH. BIBLIOGRAPHY— SCOLOPACID^. 867 



1873. CORDEAUX, J. Ou tlie Migration and Habits of the Curlew Sandpiper (Tringa 

 subarquata, Guldenstaedt). < Zoologist, 2d ser., viii, 1873, pp. 3720-3722. 



1873. Ball, W. H. Addition to the Avi-fauna of North America. < Am. Nat ru 

 1873, pp. 634, 635. ' ' 



Tringa "crassirostris", [i. e., T. ptilomemis Coues,] in the Aleutian Islands. 



1873. DuRNPORD, H. Dark Variety of the Common Snipe [GaUinago media]. <Zo- 

 ologist, 2d ser., viii, 1873, p. 3529. 



1873. FouLKS, O.D. The Woodcock [Philohela minor]. <^m. Sportsman, ii, 1873 

 p. 178. ' 



Biography. 



1873. Harvie-Brown, J. A. Curlew Sandpiper [Tringa subarquata], Buffs and 

 Eeeves [Machetes pugnax, $ 5 , near Falkirk], &c. <^Zoologist, 2d ser. , viii, 

 187o, p. 3803. 



1873. LiLFORD, Lord. [Occurrence of Numenius hudsonicus in the Coto de Donana 

 Spain. ] < Ibis, 3d ser., iii, 1873, p. 98. ' 



1873. "Massachusetts " and - Borer". Where Woodcock [Philohela minor] moult 

 <^m. Sportsman, ii, 1873, p. 172. See also p. 178. 



1873. Praxle, [W. a. E.] [Ueber Telmatias gallinula L.-Eier aus Hannover] 

 <_Ber. uber d. xx. Versamml. d. Beutsoh, Orn.-Ges., 1873, pp. 5-7. 



1873. EOPE, a. T. Nesting of the Woodcock [Scolopax rusticola] in Suffolk. < Zoolo- 

 gist, 2d ser., viii, 1873, p. 3616. 



1873. Stolker, C. Die gemeine Sumpf- oder Heerschnepfe, Bekassine (Scolopax o-al- 

 Imago L. ) in Gefangenschaft. < Zool. Gart. , xiv, 1873, pp. 477, 478. 

 In „ Omithologisclie Beobachtimgen, " St. Gallen, 1873. 



1873. '^W.E.H." [Late breeding of Philohela minor.] < Am. Sportsman, iii, 1873 

 p. 70. ' ) ! 



1873. Whitaker, J., Jr. Spotted Eedshank [Totanus fuscus, in Beetwood Park] 



< Zoologist, 2d ser., viii, 1873, p. 3492. 



1874. ''AM." Arrival of Woodcock [Philohela minor, at Fort Lee, New Jersey] 



< Am. Sportsman, ii, 1874, p. 412. 



1874. Anon. [Editorial.] The Scarcity of Woodcock [Philohela minor]. < Forest 

 and Stream, iii, Dec. 10, 1874, p. 277. 



1874. "A.W." Woodcock [Philohela minor] Carrying their Young. < Am Smrfs- 

 man, iv, 1874, p. 139. " ^ ^'"- ''J^"' f" 



Nestlings supposed to attach themselves to parent. Compare iii, p. 379, and iv, pp. 10 75 

 92. It was about this time that the curious fact that the bird transports her youni when ta 

 danger began to be noticed in this country, though long known in case of Scolopax rusticZ 

 ^eeZoolog^st, .i, 1853, p. 4017,. Various writers describe the manner in which Ly sTp ^ e 

 It to be done-not easy to determine, in the nature of the case. According to the most reli- 

 able observations, the bird holds the young one so closely to her abdomen, between her le's 

 that the two appear as one body ; thus apparently giving rise to the supposition of " A W '' 



!M!i^^J°""^" ■,1'^i'*^'"'''^"'' *° the parent." A plate has lately been published (Z^- 

 ologist, 3d ser., ni, 1879, p. 433) figuring the European Woodcock (Scolopax rLicola) flvin^ 

 with a young one m her claws, remote from her body, much as a hawk would carry a chicken! 

 But there is doub less a difference in this respect ,- for the text of the same article speaks of 

 another case m which the little one was held tightly to the body of the mother, between her 

 thighs exactly as the American bird has been seen to do. The two species probably do not 

 ^iffijr from each other in the way they do it, though this may not be always exactly the same 



1874. Batty, J. H. Woodcock [Philohela minor] killing themselves. <Am. Sports- 

 man, iv, 1874, p. 76. 



1874. Brewster, W. Love-Notes of the Woodcock [Philohela minor]. <Am. 

 ^i>oj'temaw, iv, 1874, p. 19. See also pp. 41, 92. 

 Singing on the wing after sunaet. 



