. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 252 SCOLOPACIDiE, SNIPE, ETC. GEN. 202, 203, 204. shade; $ 10-11; $ 11-12; extent 16-18; wing 4J-5 ; bill 2^-3; tarsus IJ ; middle toe and claw 1^ ; weight 5-9 oz. Bogs, swamps, wet woodland and iields, Eastern U. S. and Canada. Wils., vi, 40, pi. 48, f. 2; Nutt., ii, 194; AuD., vi, 15, pi. 352; Cass, in Bd., 709 minor. 202. Genus SCOLOPAX Linn
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 252 SCOLOPACIDiE, SNIPE, ETC. GEN. 202, 203, 204. shade; $ 10-11; $ 11-12; extent 16-18; wing 4J-5 ; bill 2^-3; tarsus IJ ; middle toe and claw 1^ ; weight 5-9 oz. Bogs, swamps, wet woodland and iields, Eastern U. S. and Canada. Wils., vi, 40, pi. 48, f. 2; Nutt., ii, 194; AuD., vi, 15, pi. 352; Cass, in Bd., 709 minor. 202. Genus SCOLOPAX Linnaeus. li! - European Woodcock. First primary alone attenuate ; wings more pointed than in the last; one-third larger; weight 12-15 oz. This bird has not hitherto been formally introduced to our fauna in any systematic treatise ; but there are several authentic instances of its capture in this country, and it is unquestionably entitled to a place here, as a straggler from Europe. See Lewis, American Sportsman, ed. of 1868, p. 169, footnote (New Jersey) ; Lawe., Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1866, 292 (Ehode Island and New Jersey) ; Baird, Am. Jonrn. Sci. xli, 1866, 25 (Newfoundland). Sportsmen who get a bird of this sort, will do well to report the fact at once. Of all the snipe- like birds of this country, called "Scolopax," the present is the only one to which the name is strictly applicable rustigola. , 203. Genus GALLINAGO Leach. American Snijje. Wilson's Snijje. Bill much longer than the head, perfectly straight, soft to the end, where it is somewhat widened and grooved on top ; gape narrow, not reaching beyond base of culmen ; ear luider eye ; tibite feathered not quite to the joint; tarsus a little shorter than middle toe and claw; toes perfectly free. Crown black, with a pale middle stripe ; back varied with black, bright bay and tawny, 'the latter forming two lengthwise stripes on the scapulars; neck and breast speckled with brown and dnsky; lining of wings barred with
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