26 NORTH. AMERICAN SHOREBIRDS. 
in the fall are: Washington, D. C., August 30, 1894 (Richmond); 
Frogmore, S. C., September 16, 1885 (Hoxie); northern Florida, 
average September 26, earliest September 20, 1904 (Williams); 
southern Louisiana, average August 29, earliest. August 25, 1901 
(Ballowe) ;, Lincoln, Nebr., August. 7, 1900 (Wolcott); San Bernar- 
dino River, Sonora, August 19, 1893 (Mearns); San. Jose del Cabo, | 
Lower California, August 28, 1887 (Brewster); San Jose, Costa Rica, 
October 9, 1889 (Cherrié;) Bermudas, September 13 (Reid);. Bar- 
bados, West Indies, October 11, 1886 (Manning). The hunter near 
Newport, R. I., secured scarcely a third as many. snipe in the fall as 
in the spring—466 birds in the eight years; earliest July 30, 1870, 
latest November 14, 1871. The average dates were August 19 to 
October 27 (Sturtevant). 
Some dates of the last seen are: Near Jasper House, Alberta, 
September 13, 1896 (Loring); Aweme, Manitoba, average October 
11, latest Nevember 7, 1907 (Criddle); Lanesboro, Minn., October 
31, 1887 (Hvoslef); Keokuk, Iowa, average November 23, latest 
November 28, 1889 (Currier); Oberlin, Ohio, latest November 22, | 
1890 (Jones); Ottawa, Ontario, average November 2, latest Novem- 
ber 18, 1900 (White); Chicago, Il., average. Octeber 31, latest 
November 138, 1885 (Holmes); St. John, New Brunswick, November 
5, 1889 (Banks); Halifax, Nova Scotia, average. November 23, 
latest December 3, 1894 (Piers); southwestern Maine, average Octo- 
ber 21, latest November 8,.1873; Montreal, Canada, average October 
30, latest November 18, 1897 (Wintle). 
Great Snipe. Gallinago media (Latham). 
The great snipe is a species of wide distribution in the Eastern 
Hemisphere. Its breeding range extends from the Scandinavian 
Peninsula to the Yenisei River of Siberia and from Prussia north to 
at least 71° north latitude. The winter home is from the Mediterra-. 
nean to South Africa, and during its migration the species occurs 
from Great Britain to Persia. 
The only record for the Western Hemisphere is that of a skin pre- 
sented by the Hudson’s Bay Company tothe British Museum (Sharpe). 
There is no reason for doubting that the specimen was taken in 
Canada, but no definite locality can be assigned. 
Dowitcher. Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.). 
Breeding range.—The nest and eggs of the dowitcher are not yet 
known to science, nor has the species been seen in summer at any 
place where it was probably breeding. The dowitcher is a common 
migrant on the coasts of New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and 
Massachusetts, and in fall is sometimes very abundant. Farther 
north its numbers decrease: New Hampshire, tolerably common in 
fall, no spring records; Maine, tolerably common spring and fall; 
Quebec, rare migrant; New Brunswick, no records; Nova Scotia, 
