. How to know the shore birds (Limicolae) of North America (south of Greenland and Alaska) [microform] : all the species being grouped according to size and color. Birds; Oiseaux. Genus MACRORHAMPHUS Leacii. MACRORHAnPHUS GRISEUS (Gmcl.). Dowitcher. Red-breasted Snipe. Brown Back. .\,ln\l //, >»,â,,/.,â¢.â A siiiMll w.'h 111.' and ' ; iii.|..m- |.Mrls, blii.'Uisli tVallicrs rdjrt'il with tMWiiy tirowii: tup ol licad. lilacKisli. â witli tawny ''^r«S2 l)i'c)\s 11: under parts, red In'MWii. tiaiidcd â¢/j^y/, on tilt' sides; throat and lireast only sii
. How to know the shore birds (Limicolae) of North America (south of Greenland and Alaska) [microform] : all the species being grouped according to size and color. Birds; Oiseaux. Genus MACRORHAMPHUS Leacii. MACRORHAnPHUS GRISEUS (Gmcl.). Dowitcher. Red-breasted Snipe. Brown Back. .\,ln\l //, >»,â,,/.,â¢.â A siiiMll w.'h 111.' and ' ; iii.|..m- |.Mrls, blii.'Uisli tVallicrs rdjrt'il with tMWiiy tirowii: tup ol licad. lilacKisli. â witli tawny ''^r«S2 l)i'c)\s 11: under parts, red In'MWii. tiaiidcd â¢/j^y/, on tilt' sides; throat and lireast only siii,'lillv spotted, entirely williont s|miIs in some liliiinai^es; tail and upper tail cov- Mii(niiiiaiiiiiini> ^'liM'u-. erts, barred with black ; liill, dark olive. .!«/»// iH (/â¢/;//(â¢(⢠.Upijer parts, --rayisli. tlie IVatliers sti.)\viii,ii laiiit eil,<-es of hiitroii the hiifk: ehin and snpeiviliaiy stripe dull jjiayish white; l)reast. i;ray. sli(. will always it from other spooios of slioiv hifds, exeept the Wilson's Snipe, from \\hi(^h it may he known at a glance hy the .small weh hetween the âiit.!f and mi(hlle toes, "and hy its dilleieiitly marked tail and tail eoverts. It occurs in Mocks, and where it has not I)een persecuted hy gunners, is very tame and unstispicioiis, and comes readily to decoys. The eggs are dull hidf or piUe olive speckled with dark hrown. MACRORHAMPHUS SCOLOPACEUS Say. LonK-billed Dowitcher. Western Red-breasted Snipe. l.''S the ;- speeies. hilt the hill is ion-er. and in hreedin- phiniM-e. the sides of the body are ilisiinetly barred with black: the tliroat and breast more and the U,-eneral 'e more hiji^hly colored. Ill winU'r the principal ditVereiice is one of si/.e. I,eiii;th. II : wiii,tr. .()â "): tarsus. ')."); bill. (1 to 2.(iO. This species, which is allied lo the eastern liird, in hieeding pluin- >,o, niiiy
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