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GENUS SCOLOPAX. 
Bill long, straight, compressed, slender, soft, eleva- 
ted at the base, obtuse at the point, upper mandible 
overhanging the lower at the tip; nostrils basal, lateral; 
feet of a middling length, slender, toes generally divided, 
hind toe resting upon the ground. 
Woodcocks* 
Tibia feathered as far as the knee; eyes placed high, 
and far back in the head. 
American Woodcock, {S* minor) - - - vi 40 
Snipes. 
Lower part of the tibia naked. 
Common American Snipe^^ (S. delicata) - - vi 18 
Red-breasted S. (S. grisea) . - - . yii 49 
* Although Wilson calls this bird (which is known in Pennsylvania by the name of En- 
glish Snipe) gallinago, yet, from the circumstance of its having two feathers more in the tail 
than the true galltnago has, he expresses a doubt as to the identity of the species. The Prince 
of Musignano informed me, that, after a careful comparison of our Snipe with specimens of the 
European gallmago and major ^ he was convinced it is different from either ; but I have since 
learnt that he has relinquished his intention of naming it, under the persuasion that the Scolo- 
pax recently discovered in Germany, and recorded in the “ Bulletin des Sciences’’ for February, 
1824, under the name of Brehmiiy was merely an accidental wanderer of our American species. 
As upon a perusal of the notice above mentioned, I can by no means agree with the re- 
spectable critic on the Nomenclature of Wilson’s Ornithology,” I shall here take the liberty 
of classing the Common Snipe of the United States under the appellation of delicata. 
