150 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Genus PHILOHELA Gray. (Page 147, pl. XLV., fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Adult: Occiput with three transverse bands of black alternating with three 
much narrower ones of ochraceous, or yellowish rusty; upper parts varied with 
pale ashy, rusty, and black, the latter in form of large spots; quills plain brownish 
gray; head, except as described above, chiefly plain cinnamon-ashy, relieved by a 
dusky line from corner of mouth to eyes and another across ear-coverts; lower 
parts plain light cinnamon, much tinged with light ashy. Downy young: General 
color light rusty buff, unvaried on lower parts; broad stripe down rump, and other 
markings on upper parts very dark chestnut, or seal-brown. Length 10.50-11.75, 
wing 4.80-5.70, culmen 2.50-nearly 3.00, tarsus 1.25, middle toe 137. Higgs 1.51 X 
1.14, short ovate or rounded ovate, buffy, spotted with rusty brown and purplish 
gray. Hab. Eastern United States, north to British Provinces, west to the Plains; 
accidental in Bermudas.............006+ 228. P. minor (Gmz..). American Woodcock. 
Genus GALLINAGO Lezacu. (Page 147, pl. XLV., fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Common Cuaracters.—Tail with a subterminal band of rufous, succeeded by a 
black bar; top of head blackish, divided medially by a line of pale buff; feathers of 
back, ete., blackish, broadly edged exteriorly with pale buff; under wing-coverts, 
axillars, and sides sharply and broadly barred with slate-color on a pure white 
ground; length 10.60-12.00. Hggs pale olive, olive-grayish, or pale olive-brown, 
heavily spotted, especially on larger end, with deep brown and purplish gray. 
a, Tail-feathers usually 14; under wing-coverts with white prevailing, the dark 
bars everywhere narrower than the white interspaces; culmen usually more 
than 3.80; wing 5.00-5.30, culmen 2.80-3,00, tarsus 1.25-1.45, middle toe 
1.15-1.40; outer tail-feathers much broader than in G. delicata. Hggs 1.57 
111. Hab. Europe and northern Asia and Africa; accidental in Bermu- 
das, and occasional in Greenland. 
229. G. gallinago (Linn.). European Snipe. 
@. Tail-feathers usually 16; under wing-coverts everywhere broadly barred with 
slate-color, these bars, as well as those on the axillars, nearly as broad as the 
white interspaces; culmen usually less than 2.75; wing 4.90-5.60, culmen 
2.50-2.70, tarsus 1.20-1.30, middle toe 1.10-1.35. Eggs 1.55 < 1.09. Hab. 
Whole of North and Middle America, and West Indies, and northern South 
America; breeding from northern United States northward. 
230. G. delicata (Orp). Wilson’s Snipe. 
Genus MACRORHAMPHUS Leacu. (Page 149, pl. XLVI, fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Common CHaractErs.—Rump and upper tail-coverts white, the former with 
U- or V-shaped marks, the latter with transverse bars, of dusky ; tail grayish dusky, 
