sr()i.()i'A<'ii) K — Tur: smim-; FA\nr>v. Go 



and spotted and barrod on tlin bar-k. ot<;., willi blackish; bom-iilli, white, tinprod with a.'ihy 

 on foronock and with biilT aluntr bidos, tho forni«r. with juK»lum. BpotH^d with dusky, and 

 tho latfor barr«d with tho Hamo; uppor taii-coviirts white; tail ashy, moro or loss dlHtinctly 

 mottliul transversely with a ilo(fpor shfvdo of tho same; winc-oovi'rts plain a-ih-trray; axil- 

 lars and lininjj of wiiiK i)lain sooty black. Winter plinnage: Above, plain a-h-yray ; bene:ith. 

 Immaculate dull white, tho forenook shaded with yrayinh. Ynnng: Above, brownish tfray, 

 the feuthors marKined with pale ochraceous; sides much tinned with tho same, and fln-dy 

 mottled trannversoly with grayish. Bill black; leps and feot crayish. In life, "bill light 

 blue, dusky toward end; iris brown; feet light blue, claw.s black." (Audubon.) 



Total length, about l.^>.00-17.«0 inches; extent, 25.(K)-30.00; wing. 8.00-9.00; culmen, 2.30-2.G(); 

 tarsus, ',2.40-2.S5; middle toe, 1.36-1.40, 



"Tlie Willet," eavfi Dr. Brewer, "is one of the most extensively 

 distributed of North American birds. It is not only found along 

 the entire Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Florida, and 

 along the entire Gulf coast, but is equally' abundant on the 

 Pacific and through nearly all the marshy regions of the in- 

 terior; it also occurs throughout Central and South America 

 as far south as the Pampas, where it breeds in large numbers." 



"Mr. Nelson refers to this species as being a rare summer resi- 

 dent in the marshes and on the wet prairies of northwestern 

 Illinois, where it arrives the last of April, leaving hy the first 

 of October. The same writer afterward found it abundant on 

 the shores of Salt Lake, in companj^ with Avocets, where its 

 clamor made it a perfect nuisance to the sportsman. Captain 

 Bendire also noticed it as an abundant summer resident in 

 southeastern Oregon, where he procured several sets of its eggs, 

 which began to be laid about the 10th of May. These birds 

 were quite as abundant in the higher mountain valleys, at an 

 altitude of six thousand feet, as they were in the lower regions, 

 apparently frequenting all marshy localities. Dr. Bryant found 

 this to be an abundant species in the Bahamas, where it was 

 also resident, breeding in all suitable localities, and being 

 known as the 'Duck Snipe.'" (Breweu.) 



Genus BARTRAMIA Lesso.v. 



^arfrrtJTiifl Lksson, Traite d'Orn. lisJl, 553. Type, B. laticauda LE98., = 7'nn(7a longi- 

 cauda Bechst. 



Chab. Upper mandible grooved laterally to within the terminal fourth, the lower not 

 quite 90 far. Culmen concave to near the tip. where it i.s slightly decurved ; gonys straight. 

 Mouth deeply cleft, almost as far back as tho anterior canthus of the eye. Tho culmen unly 

 about two thirds the oommissure. shorter than tho head or tarsus, and about equal to middle 

 toe, without claw. Feathers extending much farther forward on the upper jaw than on tho 

 lower, although those of chin reach nearly to end of nostrils. Tarsus one and one half 

 times middle loe ami claw; the bare part of tibia not quite equal to the middle toe above; 

 outer toe united at base as far as flrat joint; web of inner too very short. Tail long, gradu- 

 ated, more than half the wing.s. 



