MACRORHAMPHUS. 151 
or slaty, barred with white. Summer adult: Sides of head and neck, throat, fore- 
neck, chest, breast, and sides (sometimes entire lower parts), light cinnamon, usu- 
ally more or less flecked, speckled, or barred with dusky ; top of head and hind-neck 
streaked with pale cinnamon, or buffy, and dusky; back, scapulars, ete., varied 
with dusky and light cinnamon, or buffy. Winter plumage :* Belly, anal region, 
and indistinct superciliary stripe, white ; rest of plumage plain ash-gray, intermixed 
more or less with white on breast and sides; Wwing-coverts bordered with whitish. 
Young :* Back, scapulars, and tertials varied with blackish and light brown or clay- 
color, the latter chiefly along edges of feathers; lower parts soiled white, tinged, 
especially on breast, with pale brownish, the chest and sides indistinctly speckled 
with dusky. 
a’. Web between inner and middle toes very indistinct ; culmen not more than 3.00, 
wing not more than 6.00, and tarsus not more than 1.75; lower back entirely 
white ; axillars barred to tips with dusky, and under wing-coverts much 
varied with same; tertials, scapulars, etc., more or less barred with light 
cinnamon or buffy, in summer plumage. (Subgenus Macrorhamphus.) 
6. Length about 10.00-11.00, wing 5.25-5.90 (average 5.65), culmen 2.00-2.55 
(2.30), tarsus 1.20-1.55 (1.35), middle toe .90-1.05 (.95). Summer adult 
with belly whitish, the breast and sides speckled with dusky. Eggs 
1.65 x 1.13, light buffy olive, distinctly spotted and speckled, especially 
on larger end, with deep brown. Hab. Eastern North America, breed- 
ing far northward ; Nushagak River, Alaska (straggler ?). 
231. M. griseus (GuxL.). Dowitcher, 
6. Length 11.00-12.50, wing 5.40-6.00 (average 5.74), culmen 2.10-3.00 (2.72), 
tarsus 1.35-1.75 (1.58), middle toe .95-1.15 (1.01). Summer adult with 
cinnamon-color of lower parts deeper and much more uniform, covering 
entire belly ; sides distinctly barred with dusky. Hggs 1.74 x 1.21, pale 
olive-grayish, boldly spotted, especially over larger end, with deep van- 
dyke-brown. Hab. North America in general (except northeastern por- 
tion), but chiefly the Western Province, breeding in Alaska, etc., north 
to Arctic Ocean... 232. M. scolopaceus (Sar). Long-billed Dowitcher. 
a’, Web between inner and middle toes very large (almost equal in extent to that 
between outer and middle toes); culmen more than 3.00, wing more than 
6.00, and tarsus more than 1.75; lower back dusky, the feathers edged and 
margined with white; axillars white, barred or spotted toward base only 
with dusky, and under wing-coverts almost entirely white; tertials, scapu- 
lars, etc., edged, but not barred, with pale cinnamon, in summer plumage. 
(Subgenus Pseudoscolopax BuyTu.’) 
M. semipalmatus (JERD.). Semipalmated Snipe.’ 
1 Winter plumage and young of M. semipalmatus not seen by me, and perhaps different in style of colora- 
tion from the same stages of the American species. ; 
? Pseudoscolopax Burts, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. xvii. 1848, 252. Type, Macrorhamphue semipalmatus 
JERD. 
8 Pseudoscolop ipalmatus “ Jerp.” Burra, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. xvii. 1848, 252, 
