Bidgway on Macrorhamphus griseus, etc. 
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Scolopax noveboracensis , Gmel., S. 1ST., I, 1788, 658 (based on the Reel- 
breasted Snipe* of Pennant and Latham). — Wils., Am. Orn., YII, 1813, 
45, pi. 58, f. 1. — Sw. & Rich., F. B. A., II, 1831, 398. — Aud., Orn. 
Biog., IY, 1838, 288, pi. 399; Synop., 1839, 249; B. Am., YI, 1843, 10, 
pi. 351. 
Scolopax ( Macrorhamphus ) grisea , Bonap., Synop., 1828, 330, Bo. 267. 
— Butt., Man., II, 1834, 181. 
Scolopax puyJcullii, Bilsson, Orn. Suec., II, 106. 
Totanus ferrugineic'ollis, Yieill., Enc., Meth., Ill, 1823, 1099 (based on 
the Red-breasted Snipe of Pennant and Latham). 
Hob. — Atlantic Coast of the United States, breeding farther north- 
ward. Bo specimens seen from west of the Alleghanies. 
b. var. scolopaceus. 
The Red-bellied Snipe. 
I Limosa scolopacea, Say, Long’s Exped., II, 1823, 170. 
Macrorhamphus scolopaceus, Lawr. Ann. Lye. B. Y., Y, 1852, 4, pi. 1 
(Long Island). — Cass, in Baird’s B. B. Am., 1858, 712. — Baird, Cat. 
B. Am. B., 1859, Bo. 525. 
Macrorhamphus griseus , var. scolopaceus , Coues, Check List, 1873, Bo. 
415 a. 
Scolopax longirostris , Bell, Ann. Lye. B. Y., Y, 1852, 3. 
“ Macrorhamphus griseus ” (part), Coues, Key, 1872, 253 ; B. B. W., 
1874, 476. 
Hab. — Borth America in general, but chiefly the western portions of 
the continent ; east to the Mississippi Yalley, north to Alaska, and south 
to South America and the West Indies. Casual along the Atlantic coast 
of the United States. 
Sp. Ch. — About the size of Gallinago wilsoni, or larger. Bill long, 
compressed, flattened and expanded towards the end, where (in dried 
specimens) punctulated and corrugated. Shaft of first primary strong, 
pure white. Axillars, tail-coverts, and lower part of rump, white, barred, 
or transversely spotted, with slate-color ; upper part of rump white, usually 
immaculate. Tail slaty or dusky, barred with white (or, in summer, adult, 
with pale cinnamon on the middle feathers). Adult in summer : Head, 
neck, and lower parts light cinnamon (the abdomen sometimes whitish), 
the foreneck and sides of breast speckled, the sides and crissum barred or 
speckled with dusky. Upper parts mixed black, light cinnamon, and white, 
the former prevailing. Adult in winter: Belly and anal region white, 
usually unspotted ; rest of the plumage nearly uniform ash-gray, somewhat 
intermixed with white on the breast and sides ; wing-coverts bordered 
with whitish ; a whitish superciliary stripe. Young, first plumage : Back, 
scapulars and tertials variegated black and light clay-color, the latter 
chiefly on the edges of the feathers ; lower parts dirty white, soiled with 
dull buff or pale clay-color, especially across the breast ; jugulum and 
sides usually indistinctly speckled with dusky. 
