170 SNIPES, sixxmumcus, are.

264. Numenius longirostris ll'z'ls. LUNG — mun) CL‘RLEW ; Steam—MILL. .l:[.~—llead and neeli streaked. and baek barred with bully and black; wing-enverts, inner webs ol‘ primaries. seeondaries, and tail vary- ing from bully to pale rut'ous, barred or mottled with hlaekish; under parts oehraeeousdultl', breast more or less streaked and sides sometimes barred with blaek; axillars rufous, generally unbarred. L, Moo; “1, 10130; Tarn, 3-10; 1%., we.

[tang/«.gUnited States. breeding in the interior as far north as Manitoba and on the Atlantie coast to North Carolina; easual northward to New Eng— land; winters from Florida and Texas southward to the West Indies.

Washington, rare and irregular T. V. Long Island, easual from July to Sept. Sing Sing, A. V.

[ff/(18, three to four, olive clay—color or brownish ashy, spotted or blotehed with chocolate, 2'58 x 1'85.

“These birds, as a rule, inhabit the muddy shores and moist gra y ﬂats and plains, but often frequent and breed upon the uplands re- mote from water. Their food consists of worms, crickets, beetles, grasshoppers, small snails, crabs, and erawﬁsh; the latter they reach for with their long bills and pull them out of their holes; and I have seen them probe for and unearth the lar\';e of the beetles and other forms of life that in the spring come to or near the surface prepara- tory to transformation. While feeding they more about with an easy carriage.

" Their ﬂight is not rapid but well sustained, with regular strokes of the wings, and when going a distance usually high and in a trian- gular form, uttering now and then their loud, prolonged whistling note, so often heard during the breeding season; before alighting, sud- denly drop nearly to the ground, then gather, and with a rising sweep gracefullf alight ” ((loss).

265. Numenius hudsonlcus Lat/1. Ill'i»soxi.-\N (‘1'):LEw; JACK Cl'kww. AIL—Upper parts grayish brown. the sides of the feathers with whitish spots; rump and tail barred with bully and blaekish; inner web of outer primaries and both webs of inner ones barred with bully or whitish and black; under parts hutl'y or whitish. the neek and breast streaked and the sides and under wing—coverts barred with black. L., IT‘UO; W., 9'50; Tan, 2-20; 1%., 375. '

It’ll/Lym—Breeds in the arctic regions and winters from the Gulf States to

Patagonia. Long Island. T. V.. rare, from May ‘20 to 30; common from July to Oct. 1.

[fog/s, three to four, pale. olive, spotted with dull brown, 2'27 x 1'57 (Ridgw.).

This is a much commoner bird on our coasts than the preceding, which it resembles in habits but not in notes.

266. Numenius borealis (Fora-M. ESKHI“ (‘I'RLr-tw; Fr'rE; Doron—nmo. .»I«/.#l'pper parts black, margined and tipped with buﬂ‘y or