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to nine and a quarter inches ; extent sixteen to seventeen and a 

 half inches ; bill measured on top from feathers to tip one to 

 one and three sixteenths of an inch. 



Eange wide, including during migrations all of North America ; 

 a good little bird for the table, and as a rule easily walked up to 

 and shot where it stands, neck drawn in as though asleep. It 

 will sometimes, however, mount into the air from concealment, 

 and whirl away upon a snipe-like flight that is not easily stopped. 



PECTORAL SANDPIPER (so termed in the books) : JACK SNIPE 

 (see No. 44, to which this name is more generally applied ; also 

 No. 46). As I have never happened to hear the latter title in 

 use for this species, I must quote others concerning it. In 

 Water Birds of North America (Baird, Brewer, and Kidgway) 

 we find the following : " Mr. Boardman, informs me that this 

 species is quite common, both in the spring and in the fall, near 

 Calais, Me., where it is seen in company with the Common Snipe, 

 and where it feeds exclusively on the fresh-water marshes and 

 in the uplands. It is distinguished from the Common Snipe by 

 the name of the Jack Snipe." Mr. E. S. Bowler (Taxidermist), 

 of Bangor, tells me that this name is so used in his locality. 

 Giraud writes, 1844 : " Mr. Baird has informed me that it occurs 

 in Pennsylvania, in which section it has received the appellation 

 of ' jack snipe ;' " and in " Philadelphia Notes " to Forest and 

 Stream, October 1, 1885, " Homo " (the late C. S. Westcott) says : 

 "A few flocks of creakers, jack snipe they call them here, 

 occupy the mud flats of the Delaware." 



At Pine Point, Me., Portsmouth, N. H., in Massachusetts at 

 Eowley, Ipswich, Salem, North Scituate, Provincetown, Plym- 

 outh, West Barnstable, Chatham, New Bedford, and Falmouth, 

 GRASS-BIRD, and, infrequently, GRASS SNIPE. Known also to 

 some at Eowley and Ipswich as BROWN -BACK (see No. 45); 

 " X. Y. Z.," in Forest and Stream, November 18, 1886, speaks of 

 its being " generally called BROWNIE " in the vicinity of New- 

 buryport ; and Mr. F. C. Browne, in his list of gunners' names 

 at Plymouth Bay (Forest and Stream, November 9, 1876), gives 

 MARSH PLOVER (see No. 43). 



