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SCOLOPAClNiE. MICROPTERA. 
dull reddish- white band ; loral space dusky ; all the lower parts dull 
orange-red^ with streaks and spots of blacky more numerous along the 
sides and^on the tail-coverts. In winter, the upper parts of a nearly 
uniform brownish-grey, the hind part of the back and tail barred as in 
summer, head and neck all round ash-grey, streaked with dusky, the 
rest of the lower parts greyish-white, the sides barred with dusky. 
Adult, 10|, 18|. 
Passes in immense numbers from Texas eastward and northward to 
the highest latitudes, where it breeds, and returns in autumn. Occa- 
sionally seen in groups through the interior. Columbia River. 
Red-breasted Snipe, Scolopax noveboracensis, WlPS. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 48, 
Scolopax grisea, Bonap. Syn, p, 330. 
Scolopax noveboracensis, New York Godwit, Swains. & Rich. F, Bor; Amer. v, ii. 
p. 398. 
Brown or Red-breasted Snipe, Nutt, Man. v. ii. p. 181. 
Red-breasted Snipe, Scolopax noveboracensis, Ann. Om. Biog. v. iv. p. 285. 
GENUS VII. MICROPTERA, Nutt. BOGSUCKER. 
Bill double the length of the head, straight, slender, ta- 
pering, subtrigonal, and deeper than broad at the base, 
slightly depressed towards the end ; upper mandible with 
the ridge narrow, towards the end flattened, the sides with 
a narrow groove extending to near the tip, the tip blun^ 
knob-like, and longer than that of the lower. Head rather 
large, oblong ; eyes large, and placed high ; neck short ; 
body full. Feet rather short ; tibia feathered to the joint ; 
tarsus rather short, compressed, scutellate ; first toe very 
small, the third much longer than the tarsus. Claws very 
small, arched, acute. Wings short, rounded, the fourth and 
fifth quills longest, the first three extraordinarily attenuated. 
Tail very short, cuneate, of twelve feathers. 
354. 1. Microptera Americana, Aud. Common Bogsucker. 
— 'American Woodcock. 
Plate CCLXVIII. Male, Female, and Young. 
Bill and feet flesh-coloured ; forehead yellowish-grey, with a few 
dark mottlings in the centre ; on the upper part of the head two broad 
blackish-brown transverse bands, and on the occiput two narrower. 
