THE SNIPE. 
THE HUDSONIAN Gopwir.—Limosa Hudsonica. 
Vulgo. RING-TAILED MARLIN. 
THE RED-BREASTED SNIPE.—Scolopax Noveboracensis. 
Vulgo. ROBIN-BREAST, QUAIL SNIPE, DOWITCHER. 
Unver the general, and very incorrect appellation of 
Bay Snipe, and sometimes of Plover, the sea-shore gun- 
ners, and city fowlers who accompany them for pleasure, 
are wont to include many totally distinct and different 
families of waders, each containing several varieties, and 
all, though in some sort connected, entirely dissimilar in 
characteristics, plumage, cry and flight, as well as in 
some peculiarities of habit. ; 
Of these families, the most remarkable are the Curlew, 
numenius ; the Godwit, limosa ; the Sandpiper, tringa ; 
the Tattler, totanus ; the Plover, charadrius ; the Snipe, 
scolopax ; the Turnstone, strepsilas ; the Sanderling, ca- 
lidris ; the Avoset, recurvirosta ; and the Stilt, hemanto- 
pus ; all of which at some period of the year are visiters 
or temporary inhabitants of some portion of the Atlantic 
