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RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 
SCOLOPHX GRISEA. 
Plate XXIII. Fig. 3. 
See Wilson’s American Ornithology, Red-breasted Snipe, Scolopax noveboracensis , Vol. 
VII, p. 49, pi. 58. fig. 1, for the summer dress. 
Scolopax grisea, Gmei.. Syst. I, p. 658, sp. 27. Lath. Ind. II, p. 724, sp. 33. Suppl. 
I, p. 444, sp. 42, winter dress. Temm. Man. Orn. II, p. 679. Nob. Obs. Wils. 
sp. 205. Id. Cat. and Syn. Birds U. S. sp. 267, Id. Speech. Comp. sp. 206. Id. 
Monog. Scolop. in Obs. Cuv. p. 115, sp. 2. 
Scolopax noveboracensis , Gmel. Syst. I, p. 658, sp. 28. Lath. Ind. II, p. 723, sp. 32, 
summer dress. 
Scolopax Paykulli, Nilss. Orn. Suec. II, p. 106, sp. 186, tab. xi. 
Scolopax leucophcea, Vieill. Gal. Ois. II, p. 110, tab. 291, changing to the summer dress. 
Scolopax grisea , Vieill. Nouv. Bid. winter dress. 
Tot anus griseus, Vieill. Nouv. Bid. winter dress. 
Totanus ferrugineicollis, Vieill. summer dress. 
Totanus noveboracensis , Sabine, Zool. App. Franklins Exp. p. 687, summer dress. 
Macroramphus griseus, Leach, Cat. Mus. Brit. 
Limosa scolopacea , Say, in Long’s Exp. If, p. 170, winter plumage. 
Beccacda grigia, Ranz. Elem. Ill, pt. VIII, p. 162, sp. 5. 
Becassine grise, Vieill. Nouv. Bid. Ill, p. 358. 
Becassine ponduee, Temm. loc. cit. 
Brown Snipe, Penn. Ard. Zool. II, sp. 369. Lath. Syn. V, p. 154, sp. 26. Id. Gen. Hist 
IX, p. 216, sp. 25. Mont. Orn. Bid. with a good jig. in the Suppl. winter dress. 
Red-breasted Snipe, Penn. Ard. Zool. II, sp. 368. Lath. Syn. V, p. 153, sp. 26. Id. 
Gen. Hist. IX, p. 215, sp. 24, summer dress. 
Graubraune Schnepfe, Meyer & Wolf, Tasch. Ill, p. 46. 
Philadelphia Museum. 
We can add nothing to the excellent account given by our 
predecessor of this remarkable species, but as he only figured it 
in its summer and more familiar dress, our representation of the 
