. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. SNIPE. 341. â¢>i â 0 I â 4' RED-BllEASTED ISNIPE. {Scolo^ux novchoracams,) PLATE 1. Arct. Zool p. 404, No. 308.âPea/e'a Museum, No. 3932. MACRORHAMPUS \cu.* MacrorhampuB giiseus, Steph. C'ont. Sh. Zool. vol. xii. p. grisea, Flem. Br. Zool. p. lQV,.-lionap. Cat. p. Becassino Grise, Soolopax leucophuiii, VidU. Oal. iles Oi,. pi. ,08a ^colupucua, Say's ExpcU. to Rocky Moant. 1. p. 170,171, Snipe, Mont. Urn. Jj
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. SNIPE. 341. â¢>i â 0 I â 4' RED-BllEASTED ISNIPE. {Scolo^ux novchoracams,) PLATE 1. Arct. Zool p. 404, No. 308.âPea/e'a Museum, No. 3932. MACRORHAMPUS \cu.* MacrorhampuB giiseus, Steph. C'ont. Sh. Zool. vol. xii. p. grisea, Flem. Br. Zool. p. lQV,.-lionap. Cat. p. Becassino Grise, Soolopax leucophuiii, VidU. Oal. iles Oi,. pi. ,08a ^colupucua, Say's ExpcU. to Rocky Moant. 1. p. 170,171, Snipe, Mont. Urn. 1 onctuee, U'cmm. Man. ii. p. G7!>.-Iirowii Suipe, SMy's Illmt. Br. Orn. pi. 21, tijj. 2, *^ This bird has a resemblance to the common snipe,^ not only in its general form, size, and colours, but likewise in the excellence of its flesh, which is in high esti- It dill'ers, however, greatly from the common snipe * This bird will stand in the rank of a sub-genus. It was first in- dicated by Lead), in the Catalogue to the British Museum, under the above title. It is one of those beautifully connecting forms wliich it is impossible to place without giving a situation to themselves, and in- timately connects tlie snipes with Totanus and Limosa. The bill is truly that of iSculopax, while the plumage and changes ally it to the other genera ; from these blending cliaracters it had been termed Limosa scolopacea by Say, who gave the characters of the form, without apply- ing the name. He has the following observations in the work above quoted :â " Several specimens were shot in a pond near the Bowyer Creek. Corresponds with the genus Scolopux, Cuvier, in having the dorsal grooves at the tip of the upper mandible, and in having this part dilated and rugose ; but the eye is not large, nor is it placed far back upon the head ; which two latter characters, combined with its more elevated and slender figure, and the circumstance of the thighs be
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