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A[scolopaz] novaeboracensis MAximILIAN, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 93 (Missouri). 
Totanus noveboracensis SABINE, in Franklin’s Journ. Polar Sea, 1823, 687. 
Limnodromus noveboracensis MAXIMILIAN, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1832, 717. 
Macrorhamphus noveboracensis LicaTENSTEIN, Nom. Av, Mus. Berol., 1854, 93. 
[Scolopax] nutans Guetin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 659 (Chateaux Bay, coast 
Labrador; based on Nodding snipe Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii 465; =young). 
Scolopax leucophzxa (not of Latham) VizrLLot, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 
358 (North America; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.); Gal. Ois., ii, 1825, 110, pl. 
241, 
Totanus ferrugineicollis Visitor, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., vi, 1816, 401 (New 
York; new name for Scolopax noveboracensis GMELIN); Tabl. Enc. Méth., iii, 
1823, 1099. 
Scolopax paykullii Niusson, Orn. Suecica, ii, 1821, 106, pl. 11 (Lappland).—Ric#- 
ARDSsON, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 398, footnote (crit.). 
Macrorhamphus punctatus Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 556 (New York; north 
Europe in migration), ~ 
LIMNODROMUS GRISEUS SCOLOPACEUS (Say). 
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER. 
Similar in coloration to L. griseus griseus but larger, with decidedly 
longer bill, tarsi, and toes, the summer adults with cinnamon color of 
under parts deeper and much more uniform, covering abdomen, and 
sides distinctly barred with dusky. 
Downy young.—Pileum (except laterally) very dark burnt-umber 
brown margined laterally by asuperciliary stripe of pale dull buffy, this 
much broader and more decidedly buffy anteriorly ; beneath the latter 
a blackish brown loral streak, extending from rictus to anterior angle 
of eye and a broader postocular streak of clear burnt umber or dark 
brown; auricular region pale buffy with a narrow longitudinal blackish 
line across middle portion; general color of upper parts dark burnt- 
umber intermixed with a lighter or clearer tone of the same color, 
dotted with grayish white, this on back and rump arranged in two 
rather definite longitudinal parallel stripes; chin and throat very pale 
brownish buff or dull buffy whitish; rest of under parts pale brownish 
buffy, deepening into cinnamon on chest. 
Adult male.—Wing, 139-145 (141.1); tail, 50-56.5 (54.5); exposed 
culmen, 52-69.5 (61); tarsus, 33.5-40.5 (37.2); middle toe, 24-28 
(26.3).% 
Adult female.—Wing, 136-150 (145.4); tail, 56-61 (58.1); exposed 
culmen, 62-79 (71.3) ; tarsus, 36.5-42 (39.8) ; middle toe, 26-30 (27.7).¢ 
Western North America; breeding from northwestern Mackenzie to 
western Alaska, probably also in northeastern Siberia (Tsuktsch- 
halfon, June; Cape Wankarem; etc.); migrating southward, chiefly 
through western portion of Mississippi Valley, to Mexico (Matamoros, 
Tamaulipas; Espia, Sonora; Mazatlin, Sinaloa; Guanajuato; Zacate- 
cas; San Luis Potosi; San Mateo, Oaxaca), Guatemala (Chiapém; 
a Ten specimens. 
