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a week old at Falls Church, Va., April 18, 1897 (Riley) ; young just 
hatched, Norwich, Conn., April 5, 1888 (Rawson); young just hatched, 
Spearville, Ind., April 13, 1894 (Barnett); young, Oberlin, Ohio, 
April 19, 1901 (Baird); while eggs have been taken at Caper Island, 
South Carolina, February 13, 1903 (Wayne); Raleigh, N. C., March 
9, 1892 (Brimley); Lower Cedar Point, Maryland, February 25, 
1891 (Todd); Fallstown, Md., March 30, 1880 (Kirkwood); Law- 
renceville, N. J., March 14, 1889 (Phillips); Rockland, Me., April 26, 
1886 (Norris); Wheatland, Ind., March 14, 1882 (Ridgway); and at 
Vermilion, S. Dak. , April 21, 1884 (Agersborg), 
The average date of the last woodeock seen at Ottawa, Ontario, is 
October 19, latest October 23, 1885 (White); average southern On- 
tario October 21, latest November 6, 1889; usually leave Montreal, 
Canada, about October 20, but were seen in 1880 to December 16 
(Wintle) ; St. John, New Brunswick, average date of the last seen 
November 10, latest November 13, 1888 (Banks); Halifax, Nova 
Scotia, average November 6, latest December 4, 1895 (Piers); south- 
western Maine, average of nine years October 22, latest November 
23, 1 
pha European Snipe. Gallinago gallinago (Linn.). 
‘The European snipe is an Old World species breeding in Iceland. 
and throughout northern Europe and Siberia and south to the Alps, 
southern Russia, and Turkestan. It winters south to northern 
Africa and to China, Formosa, and the Philippines. It has been 
taken twice in the Bermudas—December 24 and 29, 1847 (Reidy, 
and three times in Greenland—at Nanortalik, September 6, 1840; 
at Fiskenaes, October, 1845, both on the west coast of Greenland 
(Winge); and the third instance was May 29, 1902, at. Angmagsalik, 
on the eastern coast (Helms). A specimen in the British Museum 
is marked as having come from anes but nothing is known of its 
a 
Wilson Snipe. Galtinago delicata (Ord). 
__ Breeding range.—The northern limit of the- -breeding range of the 
Wilson snipe extends from Newfoundland (Reeks) and northern 
Ungava (near Fort Chimo; Turner) to northern Mackenzie (Dease 
River; Hanbury) and (Fort Anderson; MacFarlane), northern Yu- 
kon (ha Pierre House; Catalogue United States National Museum), 
and northwestern Alaska (Kowak River; Grinnell), apparently fol- 
~ lowing closely the limit of trees. Snipe have been notad a few times 
on the west coast of Greenland (Winge), but there is nothing to 
prove that they breed in that country. | The species breeds south to 
New Jersey (Trenton; Abbott), northern Indiana (Davis Station; 
Deane), northern Illinois (Waukegon; N elson), northern Towa; 
(Union Slough, Kossuth County; Anderson), southern Colorado 
(San Juan County; Drew), northern Nevada (Ridgway), and north- 
ern Califormia (Eagle Lake; catalogue egg collection, United States 
National Museum). 
