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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  it, 
  white. 
  Female: 
  Browner 
  above. 
  

   Immature: 
  The 
  brown 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  

   parts 
  marked 
  with 
  whitish. 
  

  

  Length 
  13. 
  5- 
  15 
  inches; 
  extent 
  

   26-28; 
  wings 
  8.5-9; 
  "tail 
  3; 
  bill 
  2; 
  

   tarsus 
  4.15. 
  

  

  The 
  Stilt, 
  Longshanks, 
  or 
  Law- 
  

   yer, 
  is 
  confined 
  mosth' 
  to 
  tropical, 
  

   and 
  interior 
  or 
  w^estern 
  austral 
  Amer- 
  

   ica, 
  rarely 
  occurring 
  at 
  the 
  present 
  

   day 
  north 
  of 
  Florida 
  on 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  

   coast, 
  although 
  it 
  formerh' 
  bred 
  as 
  

   far 
  north 
  as 
  New^ 
  Jersey 
  and 
  possibly 
  

   on 
  Long 
  Island. 
  The 
  latest 
  New 
  York 
  

   specimens 
  were 
  taken 
  50 
  or 
  60 
  years 
  

   ago 
  on 
  Long 
  Island, 
  some 
  of 
  which 
  

   are 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  State 
  Museum, 
  the 
  

   American 
  Museuin, 
  and 
  the 
  coUec- 
  

   tion 
  of 
  the 
  Long 
  Island 
  Historical 
  

  

  Black-necked 
  stilt. 
  Himantopus 
  mexicanxis 
  (Mullcr). 
  o 
  • 
  j_ 
  "O^j-l, 
  4-'U'„ 
  ^.^^ 
  '„„ 
  „„ 
  J 
  4-1, 
  

  

  Long 
  Island 
  specimen, 
  State 
  Museum. 
  About 
  1 
  nat. 
  size 
  bOClCty. 
  Both 
  thlS 
  SpCCieS 
  and 
  thC 
  

  

  Avocet 
  were 
  of 
  regular 
  occurrence 
  on 
  our 
  coast 
  in 
  1840 
  according 
  to 
  

   Colonel 
  Pike 
  and 
  Giraud 
  [see 
  also 
  Dutcher, 
  x\uk, 
  10:272]. 
  

  

  Family 
  SCOLOF-ACID 
  AE 
  

  

  Snipe 
  etc. 
  

  

  The 
  true 
  Snipes 
  have 
  a 
  long 
  bill, 
  in 
  Tringae 
  however 
  scarcety 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  head, 
  and 
  its 
  tenninal 
  portion 
  sensitive; 
  in 
  Scolopacinae 
  the 
  legs 
  

   are 
  of 
  inoderate 
  length 
  and 
  the 
  tibiae 
  not 
  so 
  extensively 
  bare 
  as 
  in 
  Totaninae 
  ; 
  

   the 
  latter 
  also 
  have 
  the 
  terminal 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  bill 
  hard, 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  

   and 
  middle 
  toes 
  joined 
  b}' 
  a 
  web 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  and 
  the 
  plumage 
  mottled; 
  

   the 
  former 
  are 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  striped. 
  

  

  Scolopax 
  rusticola 
  Linnaeus 
  

   European 
  Woodcock 
  

   This 
  species 
  is 
  larger 
  than 
  the 
  American 
  woodcock 
  and 
  much 
  grayer 
  in 
  general 
  color. 
  The 
  under 
  

   parts 
  arc 
  finely 
  barred 
  or 
  waved 
  with 
  dusky. 
  Length 
  13.5 
  inches; 
  wing 
  8; 
  bill 
  3.25. 
  

  

  This 
  palearctic 
  species 
  has 
  been 
  taken 
  in 
  Rhode 
  Island, 
  New 
  Jersey 
  and 
  Pennsylvania. 
  Lawrence 
  

   records 
  a 
  specimen 
  from 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  which 
  was 
  brought 
  in 
  by 
  a 
  gunner 
  on 
  a 
  North 
  

   river 
  ferryboat. 
  It 
  is 
  only 
  accidental 
  in 
  eastern 
  North 
  America 
  but 
  may 
  yet 
  be 
  taken 
  in 
  New 
  Y'orjc. 
  

  

  