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N. Y., Del., Mich., Minn., B. C.); jacksnipe (B. C., Calif.); Jackson snipe (N. J.); 
kelp-plover (Me.); longbill (Idaho); long-billed plover (Wash.); quail snipe (Long Id., 
N. Y.);redbreast (Mass., Miss.) ; red-breasted snipe (Que., R. I., Long Id., N. Y., Va., 
Mich., Mo., Tex., Oreg.); robin snipe (N.S., Mass., Conn., Long Id., N. Y., 8. C., 
Mo.); sea-pigeon (N. J.); sea-quail (Long Id., N. Y.); sleeper (La.); white-tailed 
dowitcher (this a distinctive term for the western subspecies) (Long Id., N. Y.). 
Geographic index.—Ark., dowitcher; B. C., gray snipe, jacksnipe; Calif., jacksnipe, 
Conn., dowitcher, robin snipe; Del., gray snipe; D. C., grayback; Idaho, dowitcher; 
~ longbill; Ind., grayback; Za., dormeur, sleeper; Me., brownback, kelp-plover; Mass., 
brownback, driver, redbreast, robin snipe; Md., grayback; Mich., gray snipe, red- 
breast, red-breasted snipe; Minn., gray snipe; Mo., brownback, dowitcher, red- 
breasted snipe, robin snipe; NV. H., brownback; N. J., brownback, dowitcher, gray- 
back, Jackson snipe, sea pigeon; VV. Y., dowitcher, German snipe, gray snipe, quail 
snipe, red-breasted snipe, robin snipe, sea-quail, white-tailed dowitcher; NV. C., gray- 
back; N. S., robin snipe; Oreg., red-breasted snipe; Que., gray-backed snipe, red- 
breasted snipe; R. J., brownback, deutscher, fool plover, German snipe, red-breasted 
snipe; S. C., robin snipe; Tex., dowitcher, red-breasted snipe; Va., brownback, 
dowitcher, grayback, red-breasted snipe; Wash., dowitcher, long-billed plover. 
BOOK NAMES. 
For the short-billed dowttcher—Alouette de mer cendré (gray sea-lark), alouette 
d’Island (Icelandic lark, i. e., sea-lark or shore-bird), becassine de mer (sea snipe), 
becassine grise (gray snipe), becassine rousse (red snipe), brown snipe, New York 
godwit, New York snipe, red-bellied snipe, red-breasted jack. 
For the long-billed dowitcher.—Becassine a long bec (long-billed snipe), greater gray- 
back, greater longbeak, long-billed snipe. western brownback, western dowitcher, 
western red-breasted snipe. 
233. Stilt Sandpiper ( Micropalama himantopus). 
Range.—North and South America. Breeds near the coast of Mackenzie(N.W. T.), and probably south 
toCentral Keewatin (N. W.T.); wintersin South America south to Uruguay and Chile; casualin winterin 
southern Texas and Mexico; in migration occurs in the western Mississippi Valley, West Indies, and Central 
puietieg, less common on the Atlantic coast, and casual in British Columbia, Newfoundland. and 
ermuda. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None. 
In local use.—Bastard, bastard-dowitcher (Long Id., N. Y.); bastard-yellowlegs 
(Mass., R. I., Va.); frost snipe (Conn., N. J.); greenleg (Long Id., N. Y.); mongrel 
(corrupted also to mongler, R. I., N. J.); mottled sandpiper (N. C., La.); stilt (Me., 
Fla.); stilted sandpiper (Me., Mass., Ark.). 
Geographic index.—Ark., stilted sandpiper; Conn., frost snipe; Fila., stilt; La., 
mottled sandpiper; Me., stilt, stilted sandpiper; Mass., bastard-yellowlegs, stilted 
sandpiper; NV. J., frost snipe, mongrel; NV. Y., bastard, bastard-dowitcher, greenleg; 
N. C., mottled sandpiper; R. J., bastard yellowlegs, mongrel; Va., bastard-yellowlegs. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Alouette 4 longs pieds (long-legged lark, i. e., sea-lark or shore-bird), alouette de 
mer aux longues pattes (long-legged sea-lark), Audubon’s stilt sandpiper, blind snipe, 
Douglas’s stilt sandpiper, drumstick, echasse alongs pieds (long-legged stilt), long- 
legged sandpiper, maubéche 4 longs pieds (long-legged sandpiper), slender-shank 
sandpiper, stilt-legged sandpiper, wood snipe. 
234. Knot (Calidris canutus 4). (Fie. 40.) 
Range.—Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Breeds from northern Ellesmere Land south to Melville 
Peninsula and Iceland, and also on Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia; ~7inters south to southern Patagonia, and 
from the Mediterranean to South Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand; casual in winter on the At- 
lantic coast of United States; in migration occurs on the Atlantic coast of North America and over most of 
the Eastern Hemisphere; rare in the interior of North America and on the Pacific coast. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Robin snipe, sometimes shortened to robin. 
In local use.—Beach-quail (Tex.); beach-robin (N. C.); blue-plover (Me., Mass.); 
buffbreast (Mass.); grayback (Me., Mass., Long Id., N. Y., N.J.); gray-plover (N. C., 
*% Tringa canutus, 
