. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 504 SCOLOPAX MINOR. AMEBIC AN WOODCOCK. Diagnosis. Scolopax primariarum primis tribus valde attenuatis. Variations. No looal races of this species are known. Synonymy. Literature. Scolopax minor, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 661 (1788). Rusticola minor [GmeL), Vieitlot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iii. p. 351 (1816). Microptera minor [GmeL), Nuttall, Man. Orn. ii. p. 192 (1834). Microptera americana, Audubon, Syn. Birds N. Amer. p. 250 (1839). Philohela minor {GmeL)
. The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or, The plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies . Shore birds. 504 SCOLOPAX MINOR. AMEBIC AN WOODCOCK. Diagnosis. Scolopax primariarum primis tribus valde attenuatis. Variations. No looal races of this species are known. Synonymy. Literature. Scolopax minor, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 661 (1788). Rusticola minor [GmeL), Vieitlot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iii. p. 351 (1816). Microptera minor [GmeL), Nuttall, Man. Orn. ii. p. 192 (1834). Microptera americana, Audubon, Syn. Birds N. Amer. p. 250 (1839). Philohela minor {GmeL), Gray, List Gen. and Subyeu. Birds, p. 90 (1811). Plates.—Wilson, Am. Orn. pi. 48. fig. 2; Audabon, Orn. Biogr. pi. 265. Habits.—Baird, Brewer, and Kidgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 183. Eggs.—Described by Brewer in the above-mentioned work, p. 187. Specific characters. The American Woodcock may be recognized at once by the extraordinary attenuation of its first three primaries. The pattern of the colour of the upper parts is very similar to that of our bird, to which it is evidently very closely allied, but it has no trace of bars on the primaries, and scarcely any on the underparts. Its range extends northwards to lat. 50°, and southwards into Texas, but its longitudinal range extends from the Atlantic. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London : H. Sotheran
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