36 Mr. H. E. Dresser on the Birds of Southern Texas . 
lands near San Antonio, both of which I succeeded in shoot¬ 
ing. 
Bill and legs dark olive-brown; iris dark brown. 
Gallinago wilsont (Temminck). Wilson’s Snipe. 
I found Snipe very common near San Antonio during the 
winter, and had some capital sport, the more so as, nearly every 
one being absent with the army, I had the shooting almost to 
myself. I shot the last one on the 20th of April, not having- 
seen any during the previous week. 
Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmelin). Brown Snipe. 
On the 29th of June, 1863, I first noticed a few birds of this 
species at the lagoon near Matamoras; and from that time on¬ 
wards they continued to arrive, some migrating further south, 
but a considerable number remained in that neighbourhood. 
I shot them both in the red and grey plumage; and so numerous 
were they in July and August that I shot twenty-five one morn¬ 
ing before breakfast. They go in flocks of from ten to thirty, 
and struck me as being more of the Sandpiper than the Snipe 
in their habits, as I invariably found them on the shores of the 
lagoons, often in company with Sandpipers, and never in the 
same localities as Gallinago wilsoni. 1 generally found the 
Stilt-Sandpiper ( Micropalama himantopus) in company with this 
species at the Matamoras lagoon. 
I only observed the Brown Snipe on one occasion near San 
Antonio ; and that was after a heavy fall of rain, in July 1864, 
when I saw several at a pond. 
Bill blackish-brown; legs light greenish-brown; iris dark 
brown. 
Tringa maculata, Vieillot. Pectoral Sandpiper. 
A few Pectoral Sandpipers appeared near Matamoras in July 
1863, not frequenting the lagoons, but oftener found on the 
banks of the Rio Grande or at small pools after rain. In April 
1864 I observed several small flocks of four or five at the water- 
holes near San Antonio, and in May shot three at Howard’s 
Rancho on the Medina River. 
Male (2nd May, 1864). Bill greenish-black, olive-green at 
base; legs clay-yellow; iris dark brown; testes much developed. 
