ORDER LIMICOL^. HI 



winters from northern California, New Mexico, Arkansas, and North 

 Carolina through Central America and West Indies to Colombia and 

 southern Brazil; remains in winter casually and locally north to 

 Washington, Montana, Nebraska, Illinois, and Nova Scotia; acci- 

 dental in Hawaii, Bermuda, and Great Britain. 



[Gallinago mSdia (Latham). Great Snipe. [230.1.] 



Scolopax media Latham, Suppl. Gen. Synopsis, I, 1787, 292. (Lanca- 

 shire, England.) 



Range. — Northern parts of the Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds from 

 Prussia, Russia, and Siberia north to beyond latitude 71°; winters 

 from the Mediterranean to South Africa; in migration from Great 

 Britain to Persia; accidental in Canada.] 



Genus MACRORHAMPHUS T. Foester. 



Macrorhamphus Fohsteh, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 22. Type, by 

 monotypy, Scolopax grisea Gmelin. 



Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmelin). 

 Range. — North and South America. 



a. Macrorhamphus griseus griseus (Gmeliit). Dowitcher. [231.] 

 Scolopax grisea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 658. (Coast of New York.) 



Range. — Eastern North and South America. Breeding range unknown, 

 but probably northern Ungava; winters from Florida and the West Indies 

 south to northern Brazil; in migration regularly on the Atlantic coast, and 

 occasionally in Illinois, Indiana, and Ontario; accidental in Greenland, 

 Bermuda, Great Britain, and France. 



b. Macrorhamphus griseus scolop^ceus (Sat). Long-billed Dowitcher. [232.] 



Limosa scohpacea Sat, in Long's Exped., I, 1823, 170. (Near Boyer 

 Creek [near Council Bluffs, Iowa].) 



Range. — Western North America and South America. Breeds from Point 

 Barrow to mouth of the Yukon, east to northwestern Mackenzie; winters from 

 Louisiana, Florida, and Mexico south, probably to South America; in migra- 

 tion most abundant in western Mississippi Valley; casual on the Atlantic 

 coast from Massachusetts southward and on the northern coast of eastern 

 Siberia. 



