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or slaty, barred with white. Summer adult : Sides of head and neck, throat fore- 

 neck, chest, breast, and sides (sometimes entire lower parts), light cinnamon usu- 

 ally more or less flecked, speckled, or barred with dusky ; top of head and hind-neck 

 streaked with pale cinnamon, or bufly, and dusky; back, scapulars, etc., varied 

 with dusky and light cinnamon, or buffy. Winter plumage : l Belly, anal' region, 

 and indistinct superciliary stripe, white ; rest of plumage plain ash-gray, intermixed 

 more or less with white on breast and sides ; wing-coverts bordered with whitish. 

 Young .- 1 Back, scapulars, and tertials varied with blackish and light brown or clay- 

 color, the latter chiefly along edges of feathers ; lower parts soiled white, tinged, 

 especially on breast, with pale brownish, the chest and sides indistinctly speckled 

 with dusky. 



a 1 . "Web between inner and middle toes very indistinct ; culmen not more than 3.00, 

 wing not more than 6.00, and tarsus not more than 1.75 ; lower back entirely 

 white ; axillars barred to tips with dusky, and under wing-coverts much 

 varied with same ; tertials, scapulars, etc., more or less barred with light 

 cinnamon or bufly, in summer plumage. (Subgenus Macrorhamphus.) 

 b\ Length about 10.00-11.00, wing 5.25-5.90 (average 5.65), culmen 2.00-2.55 

 .(2.30), tarsus 1.20-1.55 (1.35), middle toe .90-1.05 (.95). Summer adult 

 with belly whitish, the breast and sides speckled with dusky. Eggs 

 1.65 X 1.13, light buffy olive, distinctly spotted and speckled, especially 

 on larger end, with deep brown. Sab. Eastern North America, breed- 

 ing far northward ; Nushagak Eiver, Alaska (straggler?). 



231. M. griseus (Gmkl.). Dowitcher. 

 b\ Length 11.00-12.50, wing 5.40-6.00 (average 5.74), culmen 2.10-3.00 (2.72), 

 tarsus 1.35-1.75 (1.58), middle toe .95-1.15 (1.01). Summer adult with 

 cinnamon-color of lower parts deeper and much more uniform, covering 

 entire belly ; sides distinctly barred with dusky. Eggs 1.74 X 1-21, pale 

 olive-grayish, boldly spotted, especially over larger end, with deep van- 

 dyke-brown. Sab. North America in general (except northeastern por- 

 tion), but chiefly the Western Province, breeding in Alaska, etc., north 

 to Arctic Ocean... 232. M. scolopaceus (Sat). Long-billed Dowitcher. 

 a 2 . Web between inner and middle toes very large (almost equal in extent to that 

 between outer and middle toes) ; culmen more than 3.00, wing more than 

 6.00, and tarsus more than 1.75 ; lower back dusky, the feathers edged and 

 margined with white; axillars white, barred or spotted toward base only 

 with dusky, and under wing-coverts almost entirely white ; tertials, scapu- 

 lars, etc., edged, but not barred, with pale cinnamon, in summer plumage. 

 (Subgenus Pseudoscolopax Bltth. 2 ) 



M. semipalmatus (Jbrd.). Semipalmated Snipe.' 



1 Winter plumage and young of M. semipalmatus not seen by me, and perhaps different in style of colora- 

 tion from the same stages of the American species. 



5 Pseudoscolopax Blyth, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. xvii. 1848, 252. Type, Macrorhamphus semipalmatus 

 Jekd. 



3 Pseudoscolopax semipalmatus "Jekd." Bltth, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. xvii. 1848, 252. 



