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reach the shaft; bill blackish for terminal third (approximately), 
greenish gray (in life) basally; iris dark brown; legs and feet pale 
greenish gray (in life), or pale gray washed with yellowish green on 
scutella of acrotarsium and toes. 
Adult male.—Wing, 121-130 (127.1); tail, 52-63 (57.1); exposed 
culmen, 57.5-67.5 (62.9); tarsus, 27.5-82 (30.4); middle toe, 28.5-32 
(30.3) .¢ 
Adult female——Wing, 117.5-135 (125.2); tail, 50-58.5 (54.5); ex- 
posd culmen, 58.5-73.5 (65.4); tarsus, 28-33.5 (30.8); middle toe, 
28-32.5 (30.6).° 
North and Middle America and northern South America; breeding 
from northern Alaska, northern Mackenzie, central Keewatin, and 
northern Ungava (Fort Chimo) southward to northern California 
(southward in higher mountains to Tején Pass and northern Los 
Angeles County), Utah (Parleys Park), southern Colorado (Twin 
Lakes; Estes-Park; San Juan, Yuma, and Boulder counties), northern 
Iowa, northeastern Illinois (Lake and Cook counties), northwestern 
Indiana (Kankakee marshes), Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; win- 
tering from northern California, New Mexico, Arkansas, North 
Carolina, etc., southward throughout Mexico, Central America, West 
Indies and northern South America, as far as Colombia (Medellin, 
Antioquia), Venezuela (Cardcas), British Guiana (Maroni River), 
Tobago, and Brazil (Rio Negro, Amazonas; Bahia; Rio de Janeiro) ; 
sometimes wintering locally, as far northward as Washington, 
Montana, Nebraska, Illinois, and Nova Scotia; occasional in Ber- 
mudas (Oct. to May); accidental in Hawaiian Islands (Naalehu, one 
specimen) and British Islands. 
Scolopax gallinago (not of Linneus) Wirson, Am. Orn., vi, 1812, 18, pl. 47, fig. 1.— 
ORNITHOLOGICAL CommrIrTEE, Journ. Ac, Nat. Sci. Phila., 1837, 193 (Colum- 
bia River).—D’Orsieny, in La Sagra’s Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 231.— 
Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 39. 
S[colopax] gallinago Bonaparte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 77 (crit.); 
Obs. Nomencl. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [159]. 
@ Highteen specimens. b Twenty specimens. 
, : -. | Exposed] Middle 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. calmnent Tarsus. POe 
MALES, 
Eight adult males from eastern United States (migrants)..... 126.7 55.5 61.6 30.4 30.5 
Four adult males from Alaska (breeding).................-.-- 126.7 61.5 62. 6 29.9 29.1 
Six adult males from western United States, Lower California, 2 
and Sonora (migrants)..........2......2-ceece eee ee cee eeeeee 127.7 56. 2 64.7 30. 6 30.4 
FEMALES, 
Twelve adult females from eastern United States (migrants)..| 124.2 53.8 63.9 30. 6 30. 6 
Eight adult females from western United States and Sonora 
(HBT ES) ao als 2sopa ciciersiasiecen ioe maimigdecie stems sae cecmuael 126.7 55. 5 67.3 31 30.7 
