Family CHARADRIID^. Genus Ereunetes. 



Subfamily Totaninm. 



RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 



EREUNETES GRISEUS— (G!;«f/2«)- 



Geographical Distribution. — British .• The recorded 

 occurrences on which the claim of this species to rank as 

 " British " is based are as follows. England : Devonshire (3 

 examples), October, 1801, 1837, and "previous to 1857"; 

 Cumberland (i example), September, 1835; Norfolk (3 examples), 

 October, 1836, October, 1840, October, 1845 ; Middlesex (2 

 examples), one "previous to 1866"; Scilly Isles (i example), 

 October, 1857 ; Lincolnshire (i example), August, 1882 ; 

 Lancashire (i example). Scotland: Fifeshire (i example), 

 September, 1867 ; Lanarkshire (i example), "previous to 1870." 

 Ireland : No examples have yet been obtained. It is by no 

 means improbable that some of these examples may belong to 

 the nearly allied Asiatic species about to be mentioned ; it is also 

 impossible to say, without examining each specimen, whether all or 

 part belong to the Eastern or Western form of the American 

 species. Foreign : Nearctic region except extreme north-west ; 

 northern Neotropical region in winter. Accidental in Greenland 

 and in Continental Europe. Breeds throughout the Arctic 

 regions of North America from the Rockies in the west to Baffin 

 Bay in the east, and south to Hudson Bay, and probably the 

 Great Lakes in about lat. 44°. Passes along inland routes, as 

 well as the Atlantic coasts, and occasionally over the Bermudas on 

 migration, and winters in the West Indies, Central America, and 

 South America, as far south as Brazil and Chili. 



Allied Forms. — Ereunetes griseus scolopaceus, north-western 

 Palsearctic region; northern Neotropical region in winter, 

 Probably breeds from the valley of the Saskatchewan, northwards 

 through the lake region and the Mackenzie valley to Banks Land, 



