. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . for what it isworth. There is no record that the bird ever bred in Mas-sachusetts, and possibly it never was much more than a wan-derer to these shores from the middle States. Mr. Boardmanstates that it was seen occasionally but ra
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . for what it isworth. There is no record that the bird ever bred in Mas-sachusetts, and possibly it never was much more than a wan-derer to these shores from the middle States. Mr. Boardmanstates that it was seen occasionally but rarely at Calais, Me.,and Dr. Brewer (1884) asserts that several specimens havebeen taken at Grand Manan, N. B., and that occasionalinstances of its capture near Boston are known. There isbut one record of the capture of a specimen in Maine. records two specimens as taken in Massachusetts, whichwere found in Boston market.^ There is a specimen in theMuseum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass.,labeled Lynn.^ There are no New York records for the pastfifty years. This large, handsome and striking wader has been broughtto the verge of extermination along the Atlantic coast byspring and summer shooting, as have all the larger wadersthat once bred there. 1 Allen, J. A.: Amer. Nat., 1870, p. 638. 2 Howe, R. H., and Allen, G. M.: Birds of Mass., p. CO « LU ■< z — BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 235 Snipes, Sandpipers, etc. This great family (Scolopacidce) contains birds widelydifferent in size, shape and color, but they are mainly of,smallor medium size, never reaching the average size of the bill usually is long and soft skinned in life, generallystraight, roundish and slim, but sometimes curved up ordown, and in one genus the end is spoon-shaped. The head isfeathered to the bill; excepting a few species, they frequentmoist lands or the shores of bodies of water. They inhabitall habitable lands. WOODCOCK {Philohela minor). Length. — 10 to 12 inc
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