368 CHAEADEIID^. 



MACEOEHAMPHUS. 



Macrorhamphus, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. & Birds Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1816) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus. xsiv. p. 393 (1896). 



This carious genus is intermediate in form between the Godwits and the Sand- 

 pipers. It has a long bill, as in Idmosa, with the culmen exceeding the length, of the 

 tail, but both mandibles are widened and pitted at the end, and the groove on the 

 lower mandible extends nearly to the tip of the latter. 



Two species are known — M. griseus being a Nearctic form, which winters in Central 

 and South America, while M. taczanowskii breeds in Eastern Siberia and winters in the 

 Burmese provinces and N.E. Bengal. 



1. Macrorhamplius griseus. 



Brown Snipe, Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. pt. 1, p. 154 ^. 



Scolopax grisea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 *. 



Macrorhamphus griseus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 277 ' ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 479 * ; 

 Salv. Ibis, 1865, p. 191 ' ; 1889, p. 379 ' ; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 36 ^ ; v. Frantzius, J. f . 

 Orn. 1869, p. 377 ' ; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 142 ' ; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Water-Birds 

 N. Amer. i. p. 196"; A. O. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 85"; Elliot, 

 N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 53 " ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 394 ". 



Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 141 "; Mem. Best. See. N. H. ii. p. 308" ; 

 A. O. U. Check-1. N. Amer. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 86"; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 57 ". 



Macrorhamphus griseus, var. scolopaceus, Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 46 '' ; Sumichr. La 

 Nat. V. p. 232 ". 



Ereunefes griseus, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 396 '". 



Ereunetes griseus scolopaceus, Seebohm, t. e. p. 398 ^^. 



Ptil. Mem. Supra grisescenti-brimneus, tectricibus alarum anguste albo marginatis, primariis nigricautibus, 

 secundariis brunneis, extus et ad apicem albo late marginatis, secundariis intimis longioribus brunneis ; 

 dorso postico et uiopygio albis, plumis medialiter nigro maculatis ; snpracaudalibus rectricibnsque albis, 

 nigro transfasciatis, medianis irregulariter albo notatis ; pileo dorso concolore ; fascia supralorali alba supra 

 oculum producta ; loris fuscescenti-brunneis ; facie laterali et gutture albidis, griseo-bmnneo lineatis ; 

 guttuie imo, prsepectore et pectore summo et laterali grisescenti-brunneis, bis griseo maculatis ; corpore 

 reliquo subtus albo, hypochondriis et subcaudalibus, subalaribus et axillaribus griseo- vel nigricanti-bmnneo 

 fasciatis : rostro saturate olivaeeo ; pedibus flavicanti-olivaceis ; iride rufescenti-corylina. Long, tota 

 circa 9"0, alee o'o, caudee 2-2, culm. 2*4, tarsi 1'5. (Descr. avis adultse ex DueSas. Mus. nostr.) 

 Ptil. cEStiv. Nigricans, rufo variegatus : subtus cinnamomeus, gutture, prsepectore et corporis lateribus nigro 

 maculatis. (Descr. feminse adultae ex Zacatecas. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. North Ameeica, breeding in the Arctic Regions, migrating south in winter ^^ ^^. 

 — Mexico, east coast (Sumichrast ^^), Matamoros (Dresser ''), Mazatlan (Grayson i^), 

 Guanajuato (Buges^), Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi (Hichardson^^), San Mateo, 

 Tehuantepec (Sumichrast''-^ ^^), Cozumel I. (Gaumer^'^^); Guatemala, Chiapam 

 (0. S.° 13), Lake of Duenas, San Geronimo (0. S. & F. I). G.^^) ; Costa Eica 

 (v. Frantzius^ ^% Alajuela (Underwood, in lift.); Paxama (M'Leannan^). — 

 Colombia ^^•, Bbazil ^^ j ^Yest Indies ^^. — Incidental in Europe i^. 



