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The Western form of the Snipe-billed Sandpiper has a longer bill than the Eastern form Variations. 

 and may fairly be regarded as subspecifically distinct. 



Scolopax srisea, -> . 



„ , . \ Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pp. 658, 661 (1788, winter plumage). 



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Scolopax noveboracensis, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 658 (1788, summer plumage). 



Scolopax leucophsea, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iii. p. 358 (1816, nee Lath.). 



Totanus ferrugineicollis, Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vi. p. 401 (1816). 



Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.), Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. fyc.Brit. Mus. p. 31 (1816). 



Scolopax paykullii, Nilsson, Orn. Suec. ii. p. 106 (1817). 



Totanus noveboracensis [Gmel.), Sabine, Frankl. Journ. p. 687 (1828). 



Macrorhamphus punctatus, Lesson, Traite d'Orn. p. 556 (1831). 



Limnodromus griseus {Gmel.), Lembeye, Av. Isla Cuba, p. 91 (1850). 



Limosa grisea {Gmel.), Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolop. p. 26 (1864). 



Ereunetes griseus {Gmel.), Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 168 (1885). 



Synonymy. 



Plates. — Wilson, Am. Orn. pi. 58. fig. 1 ; Audubon, Birds Am. vi. pi. 351. 

 Habits. — Seebohm, British Birds, iii. p. 168. 

 Eggs. — Seebohm, British Birds, pi. 68. fig. 2. 



Literature. 



The Canadian Snipe-billed Sandpiper, otherwise called the Red-breasted Snipe, the 

 Brown Snipe, the Grey Snipe, or Lesser Longbeak, may be distinguished from all its 

 congeners (except from the Alaskan Snipe-billed Sandpiper, to which it appears to be 

 connected by intermediate forms) by its feet. It has no web between the middle and inner 

 toes. It is intermediate in size between E. taczanowskii and JE. Ziimantopus, and agrees 

 with the former in having the loiver bach very much whiter than the mantle. It scarcely 

 differs in colour or markings at any age or season from its Western form, but it is on an 

 average a slightly smaller bird, with a proportionately shorter bill and tarsi, as the following 

 measurements prove : — 



Specific 

 characters. 



Subspecific 

 characters. 



E. griseus. 



Length of wing 5 4 to 5"8 



Length of bill 2 to 2"6 



Length of tarsus L2 to l - 5 



E. scolojoaceus. 



5-6 to 6-0 

 2-4 to 3-0 

 1-4 to 17 



The Canadian Snipe-billed Sandpiper breeds in the arctic regions of the American Geographi- 

 continent from the Rocky Mountains to Baffin's Bay, and has occurred in Greenland. On f. al dlstnbu " 

 migration it follows the inland fly-lines as well as the Atlantic coast, and occasionally 

 occurs on the Bermudas (Reid, Zoologist, 1877, p. 476). In winter it has been found in 



