BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. "157 
occasional or casual (in summer) northward to Newfoundland (St. 
George Bay), Labrador (Gaspé), Prince Edward and Anticosti 
Islands, northern Ontario (near Kearney; Bracebridge), Keewatin, 
and Saskatchewan; wintering from New Jersey (rarely Massachusetts), 
the Ohio Valley, southern Missouri, etc., southward to southern 
Florida, Gulf coast, and western Texas (Concho County); accidental 
in Bermudas (1 specimen, Oct., 1842) and in Jamaica(?). 
[Scolopax] minor Gmetin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 661 (New York; based on 
Little Woodcock Latham, Synopsis Birds, iii, pt. 1, 1785, 181; Pennant, Arctic 
Zool., ii, 463).—Latraam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 714.—Turron, Syst. Nat., 
i, 1806, 396.—Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 39 (Jamaica). 
Scolopax minor Witson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 40, pl. 48, fig. 2.—Bonaparre, Ann, 
Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1827, 331—Aupuzon, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 474, pl. 268, 
fig. 1.—Haymonp, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., viii, 1856, 296 (Franklin Co., 
Indiana).—ScuLecet, Mus. Pays-Bas, iv, no. 27 (Scolopaces), 1864, 3.— 
Castiz, Am. Nat., ii, 1868, 663 (alighting in trees)—Fow er, Am. Nat.; 
iv, 1870, 762 (Essex Co., Mass.; habits) —SrrBoum, Ibis, 1886, 127 (crit.) 
Geog. Distr. Charadriide, 1887, pp. xxviii, 504. 
S{colopar] minor Bonararte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 76 (crit.); 
Obs. Nom. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [158].—Maxmmuian, Journ. fiir Orn., 
1859, 93 (Pennsylvania; Missouri).—Newton (A and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 
1881, 116. 
Rusticola minor Vizttuot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 351; Gal. Ois., ii, 
1825, 242.—Lxsson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 555. Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. 
List, 1838, 52; Compt. Rend., xliii, 1856, 579.—Pzapopy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 
1839, 373.—Gossx, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 354.—THomrson, Nat. Hist. Ver- 
mont, 1853, 106, fig.—Manrca, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 68 (Jamaica). 
Rusticolar minor Watzs, Rep. Geol., etc., Miss., 1854, 322. 
Microptera minor Nurraty, Man. Orn. U. 8. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 194. 
Philohela minor Gray, List Gen. Birds, 1841, 90; List Birds Brit. Mus., Gralla, 
1844, 112; Gen. Birds, ili, 1846, pl. 157, fig. 2—RetcnEnBacu, Gralla- 
tores, 1850, pl. 68, fig. 554. —WoopHouss, in Sitgreaves’ Rep. Zufii and Col. 
R., 1853; 101 (Indian Territory)—Kernnicorr, Trans. Ills. Agric. Assoc., 
i, 1855, 587 (Illinois)\—KNnrxzLanpD, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, 1857, 238 
(Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior).—Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 
Surv., ix, 1858, 709.—Barrp, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 522.—BarNaRD, 
An. Rep. Smithson. Inst. for, 1860 (1861), 438 (Chester Co., Pennsylvania).— 
BoaRpMAN, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ix, 1862, 128 (Bay of Fundy, breeding).— 
VerrILL, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 152 (Oxford Co., Maine, breeding).— 
Haypen, Rep. U.S. Geol. Surv., 1862, 174 (Loup River, Nebraska).— ALLEN, 
Proc. Essex Inst., iv, 1864, 77 (Springfield, Mass.).—McIuwraits, Proc. 
Essex Inst., v, 1866, 92 (Hamilton, Ontario).—Couss, Proc. Essex Inst., 
v, 1868, 293 (New England); Check List, 1873, no. 412; 2d ed., 1882, no. 
605; Birds Northwest, 1874, 472.—Lawrencr, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1867, 
293 (vicinity New York City)—AttEN, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1868, 
541 (w. Iowa); Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 355 (e. Plorida).—Turn- 
BULL, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 1869, 39 (Phila. ed., 30) —Maywnarp, Proc. 
Bost. Soc. N. H., xiv, 1872, 283 (Lake Umbagog, Maine, breeding).—Scort, 
‘ Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xv, 1872, 227 (West Virginia); Auk, vi, 1889, 156 
(Panasoffkee Lake, s. Florida, 1 spec., Jan.); ix, 1892, 12 (Jamaica), 212 
(Caloosahatchie River, s. w. Florida, rare winter resident).—Snow, Birds Kan- 
sas, 1873, 10 (rare). —Murriam, Am. Nat., viii, 1874, 9 (Aiken,South Carolina) ; 
