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a week old at Falls Church, Va., April 18, 1897 (Riley); young just 

 hatched, Norwich, Conn., April 5, 1888 (Rawson) ; young just hatched, 

 Spearville, Ind., April 13, 1894 (Barnett) ; young, Oberlin, Ohio, 

 April 19, 1901 (Baird); while eggs have been taken at Caper Island, 

 South Carolina, February 13, 1903 (Wayne) ; Raleigh, N. C, March 

 9, 1892 (BrinriVy); Lower Cedar Point, Maryland, February 25, 

 1891 (Todd); Fallstown, Md., March 30, 1880 (Kirkwood) ; Law- 

 renceville, N. J., March 14, 1889 (Phillips); Rockland, Me., April 26, 

 1886 (Norris); Wheatland, Ind., March 14, 1882 (Ridgway); and at 

 Vermilion, S. Dak., April 21, 1884 (Agersborg). 



The average date of the last woodcock seen at Ottawa, Ontario, is 

 October 19, latest October 23, 1885 (White); average southern On- 

 tario October 21, latest November 6, 1889; usually leave Montreal, 

 Canada, about October 20, but were seen in 1880 to December 16 

 (Wintle) ; St. John, New Brunswick, average date of the last seen 

 November 10, latest November 13, 1888 (Banks); Halifax, Nova 

 Scotia, average November 6, latest December 4, 1895 (Piers) ; south- 

 western Maine, average of nine years October 22, latest November 



23, 1900. 



European Snipe. Gallinago gallinago (Linn.). 



The European snipe is an Old World species breeding in Iceland 

 and throughout northern Europe and Siberia and south to the Alps, 

 southern Russia, and Turkestan. It winters south to northern 

 Africa and to China, Formosa, and the Philippines. It has been 

 taken twice in the Bermudas — December 24 and 29, 1847 (Reid), 

 and three times in Greenland — at Nanortalik, September 6, 1840; 

 at Fiskenaes, October, 1845, both on the west coast of Greenland 

 (Winge); and the third instance was May 29, 1902, at Angmagsalik, 

 on the eastern coast (Helms). A specimen in the British Museum 

 is marked as having come from Canada, but nothing is known of its 

 history. 



Wilson Snipe. Gallinago delicata (Ord). 



Breeding range. — The northern limit of the breeding range of the 

 Wilson snipe extends from Newfoundland (Reeks) and northern 

 Ungava (near Fort Chimo; Turner) to northern Mackenzie (Dease 

 River; Hanbury) and (Fort Anderson; MacFarlane), northern Yu- 

 kon (La Pierre House; Catalogue United States National Museum), 

 and northwestern Alaska (Kowak River; Grinnell), apparently fol- 

 lowing closely the limit of trees. Snipe have been noted a few times 

 on the west coast of Greenland (Winge), but there is nothing to 

 prove that they breed in that country. The species breeds south to 

 New Jersey (Trenton; Abbott), northern Indiana (Davis Station; 

 Deane), northern Illinois (Waukegon; Nelson), northern Iowa; 

 (Union Slough, Kossuth County; Anderson), southern Colorado 

 (San Juan County; Drew), northern Nevada (Ridgway), and north- 

 ern California (Eagle Lake; catalogue egg collection, United States 

 National Museum). 



