ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF OUR BIRDS. 
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Family SCOLOPACIDiE: Snipes, etc. 
Fig. 143. 
Wilson’s Snipe (Gallinago Wilsont). From Tenney’s Zoology. 
200. PmLOHELA MINOR (Gm.), Gr. AMERICAN WOODCOCK. Group I. 
Class c. 
This game bird is not uncommon during the summer in damp woods bordering 
streams and other suitable localities. I have found it in the corn-field as well. 
Food: Of two specimens examined, two had eaten three angle-worms; one, a 
beetle; and one, some vegetable matter. 
Various larvae and other aquatic worms (Wilson). Chiefly eartli-worms and 
aquatic insects (De Kay). Worms and animalculae procured from soft eai’th 
(Samuels). Earth-worms, grubs, etc. (August Fowler, Am. Nat., Vol. IV, p. 761), 
201. Gallinago Wilsoni (Temm.), Bp. AMERICAN SNIPE; WILSON’S 
SNIPE. Group I. Class c. 
Wilson’s Snipe, incorrectly called the English Snipe by many, is very abun¬ 
dant during the migrations, and doubtless breeds witli us in considerable num¬ 
bers, as they were abundant on the banks of the Fox river early in July of 1876. 
They frequent the wet, treeless banks of streams and low, wet meadows. During 
the fall they may be seen at times in flocks of from thirty to fifty. 
Food: Of eleven specimens examined, ten had eaten thirty-five insects; three, 
fifteen beetles; one, a dipterous larvae; and five, vegetable matter. 
Larvae of water insects, leeches, and occasionally grasshoppers and other 
insects (Samuels). 
202. Macrorhamphus griseus (Gm,), Leach. RED-BREASTED SNIPE; 
GRAY SNIPE. Group I. Class c. 
Dr. Hoy has observed this species near Racine. Mr. Nelson speaks of it as a 
rather common migrant in Northeastern Illinois. I have no personal acquaint¬ 
ance with it in the field. 
Food: Snails (Wilson). 
203. Micropalama himantopus (Bp.), Bd. STILT SANDPIPER, Group I. 
Class c. 
A rare migrant with which I have not met. 
