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especially on chest, which, together with sides, is usually more or less 
speckled with dusky; otherwise much like winter adults. 
Adult male.—Wing, 135-149 (141); tail, 53-58.5 (54.6); exposed 
culmen, 51-59.5 (55.3); tarsus, 30-36.5 (33.5); middle toe, 23-27 
(25.1).¢ 
Adult female——Wing, 138.5-148 (142.9); tail, 52-57 (54.5); ex- 
posed culmen, 55.5-62 (59.4); tarsus, 31-36 (33.3); middle toe, 23-27 
(25.4).° 
Eastern North America, West Indies, and northeastern South 
America; breeding far northward, probably in Ungava and northern 
Labrador (possibly western side of Hudson Bay also); migrating 
southward along Atlantic coast (more rarely through Mississippi 
Valley), and wintering in southern Florida, West Indies (Bahamas; 
Cuba: Jamaica; Sombrero; Guadeloupe; Barbados; Grenada), Trini- 
dad, British Guiana, and Brazil (Cujutuba; Paré; Bahia); occasional 
in British Islands (15 records), and France (2 records); casual in 
Greenland, Alaska (Nushagak), and northern Idaho (Fort Sherman).¢ 
[Scolopaz] grisea GmEtin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 656 (coast of New York; based 
on Brown Snipe Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, 464; Latham, Synopsis Birds, v. 
154).—Latuam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 724.—Turton, Syst. Nat., i, 1806, 395. 
Scolopax grisea Virttot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 357 —Trmmincg, 
Man. d’Orn., ii, 1820, 679; iv, 1840, 437.—Bonaprarte, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 
Phila., v. 1825, 81; Obs. Nom. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [163]; Ann. Lyc. 
N. Y., ii, 1827, 330; Am. Orn., iv, 1832, 51, pl. 23—Fox, Newc. Mus., 
1827, 371.—FLemine, Brit. Anim., 1828, 106.—Nurratt, Man. Orn. U. 8. 
and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 181—Aupuzon, Birds Am., fol. ed., iv, 1838, ' 
pl. 399.—PraBopy, Rep. Orn. Mass., 1839, 371.—YaRRELL, Hist. Brit. Birds, 
ii, 1843, 621.—ScuirceL, Rev. Crit., 1844, 86.—Dxrnny, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1847, 39.—Hartine, Birds Middlesex, 1866, 195. 
Totanus griseus (not of Bechstein, 1809) Vizmzot, Nouv. Dist. d’Hist. Nat., 
vi, 1816, 406 (environs of New York City). 
Macrorhamphus griseus Leacu, Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 31.— 
StepHens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xii, 1824, 61, pl. 9.—Jarpine, ed. Wilson’s 
Am. Orn., ii, 1832, 337; Contr. Orn., 1849, 84 (Bermudas, common).—Bona- 
parts, Am. Orn., iv, 1832, 51, pl. 23; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 52.— 
Jenyns, Man. Brit. Vertebr., 1835, 207.—GovuLp, Birds Europe, iv, 1837, 
pl. 323 and text; Birds Great Brit., iv, 1872, pl. 76 and text.—MacGiLLivraY, 
Man. Brit. Orn., ii, 1842, 100; Hist. Brit. Birds, iv, 1852, 275.—Gray, List 
Birds Brit. Mus., Gralle, 1844, 109 (Devonshire, England); List Brit. Birds, 
1863, 172.—Yarre.L, Hist. Brit. Birds, 2nd ed., iii, 1845, 48; 8rd ed., 
iii, 1856, 46.—Hurpis, Jardine’s Contr. Orn., 1850, 10 (Bermudas, Aug., 
Oct.).—RztcHensBacn, Grallatores, 1850, pl. 356, figs. 2793-2795. BREWER, 
Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., iv, 1854, 326 (acc. in Europe); xvii, 1875, 445 (New 
@. Eleven specimens. 
b Ten specimens. 
¢ Without examination of specimens it is impossible to tell whether records for the 
Gulf and Caribbean coasts of Mexico and Central America, as well as certain ones 
or localities in the interior of the continent, are referable to this form or to L. g. 
fscolopaceus. These doubtful records have been placed where they seem most prob- 
ably to belong, but are distinguished by the interrogation mark in each instance. 
