Snipe and Sandpipers. 



Order, Limic(jlae. 

 Family, Scolnpacidae. 



264. CURLEW. Numeniiis Longirostris. Length nearly two 

 feet of which about seven inches is bill. Mostly buff-colored with 

 irregular streaks of black and light and dark chestnut. Bill curves 

 downward. 



230. JACK SNIPE or WILSON'S SNIPE. Gallinago delicata. 

 Eleven inches long. Bill long and delicate. UpiJer parts striped with 

 buff and dull drab. Stripes black above. White below. Plumage 

 generally striped and spotted. Rather common around ponds and 

 lakes where he probes for food. 



2 54. GREATER YELLOW LEGS. Totanus melanoleucus. 

 Thirteen and one half inches long. Black mottled with gray and 

 white above. Tail mostly white though marked with gray. White 

 below spotted and barred with black. 



255. LESSER YELLOW LEGS. Totanus flavipes. Ten and one half 

 inches long. Black above with white marking. White below with 

 black marking. Tail white. A common wader. Almost identical 

 with the large variety except as to size. 



228. WOODCOCK. Philohela minor. Eleven inches long. Very 

 long bill. Prominent eyes. Like the undertaker you can track him 

 by his holes in the ground. Mottled brown above. Brown below. A 

 favorite with hunters. Legs very yellow. 



2 42. LEAST SANDPIPER. Tringa minutilla. Six Inches long. 

 A common wader. Best identified by its size. Dusky brown above. 

 Black toward the tail. Gray and white below. Active and easily 

 scared. Generally seen in flocks. 



261. UPLAND PLOVER (Bartramian Sandpiper). Bartramia 

 Longicauda. Twelve inches long. Brown and gray above with more 

 or less black barring. Beneath white with buff stain. Bill and legs 

 yellow and long. Generally found on the open prairies away from 

 water. 



