BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 165: 
Ascalopax major Miuue, Beitr. Orn. Griechenl., 1844, 108.—Hrvueuin, Syst. Ueh. 
1856, 64 (lower Egypt).—LinprerMayeEr, Vég. Griechenl., 1860, 145. 
Scolopaxr paludosa Rerzius, Faun. Suec., 1800, 173. 
Scolopax palustris Patuas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., ii, 1826, 173 (n. Russia; Siberia). 
_ Scolopax leucurus Swanson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 501 (Hudson Bay; type 
now in coll. Brit. Mus.).—Nurtratt, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water birds, 
1834, 617. 
Gallinago leucurus Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, June, 1846, pl. 157. 
Telmatias nisoria Bream, Vég. Deutschl., 1831, 616. 
Gallinago montagui Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 52 (Suffolk, Eng- 
land). 
Scolopaz solitaria (not of Hodgson) Maceriivray, Man. Brit. Birds, ii, 1842, 102. 
Telmatias brachyptera Bream, Vogelf., 1855, 305. 
Telmatias uliginosa Breum, Vogelf., 1855, 305. 
GALLINAGO GALLINAGO (Linneus). 
SNIPE. 
Adults (sexes alike)—Pileum with a narrow median (sometimes 
more or less broken) stripe of light buff and two broad lateral stripes 
of sooty black, the latter much contracted on forehead and some- 
times minutely flecked or streaked with pale brown or cinnamon; 
x broad superciliary stripe of buff, extending from sides of forehead 
to nape, the buffy color deepening posteriorly, where sometimes 
almost cinnamon; a loral stripe of dusky or dusky brown, extending 
from Jateral base of maxilla to anterior angle of eye; a narrow, broken, 
postocular dusky streak, and an oblique stripe of dusky brown 
extending from middle of malar region upward and backward to end 
of auricular region; hindneck and sides of neck brownish buffy (more 
or less deep) broadly streaked with dusky, the foreneck similar but 
with the buffy color paler and streaks massed into a more or less 
distinct stripe on each side; chin, throat, and upper portion of malar 
region immaculate dull buffy white or very pale buff; chest and upper 
breast brownish buffy (nearly vinaceous-buff) irregularly streaked 
and otherwise marked with grayish brown, the lower breast paler, 
with markings more transverse; rest of under parts white, the sides 
and flanks regularly barred with dusky, the under tail-coverts 
vinaceous-buff or cinnamon-buff irregularly barred or otherwise 
marked with dusky; scapulars and interscapulars black, their outer 
webs broadly and abruptly margined with pale buff to deep brownish. 
buff, the black portion more or less broken by irregular small spots. 
or bars of cinnamon or cinnamon-brown, these assuming a more or 
less U-shaped form on posterior scapulars; anterior lesser wing- 
coverts nearly’ uniform dusky brownish gray, the posterior ones, 
together with middle coverts broadly but not abruptly tipped with 
pale brownish buffy; greater coverts, primary coverts, and sec- 
ondaries dusky, tipped with white; primaries dusky, the outermost 
with outer web mostly white; rump deep brownish gray, the feathers 
