70 FAUXA OF XEW ENGLAMD. 



LDIICOL-IZ. 



SCOLOPACrD-\E. 



E.. I. — Common migrant and rare winter resident. Mar. 9- 

 Alav 6: July 29) Aug. 12-Xov. 14 Dec, Jan.)- 



Coxx. — Common migrani. rare summer and winter resident. 

 Mar. lb-Dec: winter. Eggs, Mar 1.3 (Portland). 



134. AL^CEOEHLiiiPHUS GELSEUS (Gmelin) Leach. 



Dovritcher; Brownback; Dentscher; Fool plover; German 

 snipe; Grayback; Gray snipe; Eed-breasted snipe; Robin 

 snipe. 



Scolapax grvsea Gmel., Sjst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 658. 'rsr 

 NOVEBORACI MAEimns." 



Scolopax noveboracensi-s Gmel. Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1843, vol. 6, p. 10, pi. 351. Egg, Seebohm, 1896, p. 143, pi. 41, 



%■ 8. 



Chiefly maritime marshes and mudflats; nests on the ground. 



'Me. — Common migrant coastwise. May 21-29; late July- 

 Sept. (Oct. 29). 



X. H. — ^Migrant, common in fall. May 20-25; July 20-Sept. 



]Mass. — Rare spring and imcommon fall migrant, mainly coast- 

 wise. May 1-Jime 7 (June 18) ; July .5-Sept. 30. 



R. I. — Uncommon migrant coastwise. May; July .5-Oct. 20. 



Coxx. — Uncommon migrant, mainly in fall. 



135. ^L^CEOEHAMPHTS 5COLOPACEUS (Say) Lawrence. 



Long-billed dowitcher. 



Elliot, Xew and unfigured birds Xo. Amer., 1869, vol. 2, pi. 40. 

 Limosa scolopacea Say, Long's exped. to Rocky Mts., 1823, vol. 



1, p. 170. "XE-VE THE BOWTER CREEK," loWA. 



Chiefly maritime marshes and mudflats; nests on the ground. 



IMass. — Rare fall migrant. Aug. 29-Xov. 3. 



R. I — Rare fall migrant: jMiddletown, Oct. 8, 1890. 



