. 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, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. SCOL OVA CIVjE : SNIPE. 621 this family), less so than in Scolopax or Philohela; no primaries attenuate. Tail short, rounded, of numerous (in our species 10) fea
. 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, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. SCOL OVA CIVjE : SNIPE. 621 this family), less so than in Scolopax or Philohela; no primaries attenuate. Tail short, rounded, of numerous (in our species 10) feathers, of which tlie lateral are narrowed; tail barred crosswise. Sexes alike; i^easonal changes of plumage nut jtronounced. Numerous species of all countries; one N. American, and another straggling to Greenland from Europe. Anahj^ls of Specks. Axillars and flanks white, incompletely or imperfectly barred Willi blackish media GD7 Axillars and flanks fully and regalar/y barred with white and blackish wilsoni G0« G. me'dia. (Lat. media, mediunj (in size, between two other European species.) Fig. 4o0.) European Snipe. "English hnipe" proper. In size, form, and general coluratiou indistin- guishable from No. 608, but the axillary feathers almost entirely white, with sliglit and dark markings, and the feathers of the flanks and sides less frequently and less regularly barred. Fig. 436. — The Snipe's family. (From " Sport with Gun and ; The Century Co., N. Y.) with dark gray. (In the lesser European Snipe, G. gaUinula, the sides and lining of wings are fully barred as in our S. wilsoni, but the tail-feathers are 14, the outer ones little shorter and not abruptly narrower than the rest.) Europe : Only N. American as occurring in Greenland. 608. G. wU'soni. (To A. Wilson. Figs. , 433, 43G.) American Snipe. AA^ilson's Snipe. "EnCxLisii" Snipe (so-called). Jack-Snipe. Adult $ 9 : Crown black, with a pale oehrey middle stripe. Up])er part
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