LlMNiiDROMUS. 117 



Macvorliamplnis griseus Cab. in Sehomb. Eeis. Gulan. ill. ]). 75S. 1848; 

 Salvin, Ibis, 18S6, p. 179 ; Shai-pe, Cat. B. Brit. Mu.<. xxiv. p. 394, 

 1896; Quelch, Timehri (2 i x. p. 276, 1896. 



Adult male. Head, back, scapulars, inner secondaries, and inner 

 greater upper wing-coverts blackish brown with ruf'escent spots or 

 edgings to the feathers ; rump white with dark centres and white 

 fringes to the feathers giving a spotted appearance; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail barred with brown and white ; hind-neck dusky 

 brown ; supraloral streak and line over the eye white ; lores 

 and leathers in front of the eye dusky ; chin, throat, and entire 

 under surface white with a wash of pale ochreous and small brown 

 centres to the feathers which become enlarged on the sides of the 

 body and formed into triangular spots on ihe under tail-coverts ; 

 axillaries white with diagonal bars of pale brown ; under wing- 

 coverts pale brown, shaft-streak and margins of the feathers white. 

 Total length 2G5 mm., culmen 65, wing 143, tail 54, tarsus 34. 

 Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but slightly larger. 

 Wing 150 mm. 



We do not know the exact locality of the male described. 

 This species breeds in the high north and is a winter visitor to 

 British Guiana. 



Range in Bi'itish Guiana. The only records of this species 

 that we have been able to find are those of Schomburgk, Mr. J. 

 J. Quelch, and the two examples that are in the McConnell 

 collection, but the last have no exact localities. 



Extralimital Range. Brazil, Peru, and Colombia in South 

 America, Central America, West India Islands, and Xorth 

 America. 



Habits. Schomburgk states (Reis. Guian. iii. p. 758) that this 

 species is found on the sand- and mussel-banks of the coast. 



Mr. J.J. Quelch (Timehri (2) x. p. 270) met Avith this species in 

 British Guiana and remarks: — "'It has already been mentioned 

 that the true Snipes of the Colony are resident sj^ecies, iind this is 

 certainly the ca.«e with regard to our two species of Galliuago 

 proper. The Red-breasted Snipe {Macrorhamplius griseus),ho\\- 

 ever, which breeds in the extreme north, migrating for the winter 

 to Central and South America and the West Indies, certainly visits 

 lis, though the birds seem to be but rarely obtained. Stragglers 

 have at times been taken in Great Britain and on the continent of 

 Europe." 



