Identifier: geographicaldis00seeb (find matches)
Title: The geographical distribution of the family Charadriidae, or the plovers, sandpipers, snipes, and their allies
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895 Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, lithographer Hanhart, printer of plates Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI Judd & Company, printer of plates Library of Congress, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Charadriidae Shore birds
Publisher: London Manchester : H. Sotheran & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ature. Scolopax minor, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 661 (1788). Rusticola minor (GmeL), Vieillot, N. Diet. dHist. Nat. iii. p. S51 (1816).Microptera minor (GmeL), Nuttall, Man. Dm. ii. p. 192 (1834).Microptera americana, Audubon, Syn. Birds N. Amer. p. 250 (1839).Philohela minor (GmeL), Gray, List Gen. and Subijen. Birds, p. 90 (1811) Plates.—Wilson, Am. Orn. pi. 48. fig. 2; Audubon, Orn. Biogr. pi. 265.Habits.—Baird, Brewer, and liidgway, Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 183.Eggs.—Described by Brewer in the above-mentioned work, p. 187. Specificcharacters. The American Woodcock may be recognized at once by the extraordinary attenuationof its first three primaries. The pattern of the colour of the upper parts is very similar tothat of our bird, to which it is evidently very closely allied, but it has no trace of bars onthe primaries, and scarcely any on the underparts. Its range extends northwards tolat. 50°, and southwards into Texas, but its longitudinal range extends from the Atlantic
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J G-Keulercajis filri . :S BanHar iraj: SCOLOPAX ROCHUSSENI MOLUCCAN WOODCOCK. SCOLOPAX. 505 only halfway across the continent. To the northern half of its range it is only a summer Geographi-visitor, but in the southern half it is a resident, whose numbers are largely increased tion> during winter. There can be little doubt that it is the result of an ancient westernemigration from the Old World or from the Azores. It is for the most part a forest-bird, and almost exclusively nocturnal in its habits. SCOLOPAX ROCHUSSENI. MOLUCCAN WOODCOCK. (Plate XX.) Scolopax rectricum apicibus subtus colore argenteo : primariarum pogoniis internis fasciatis : Diagnosis.pectore non fasciato. It is not known that examples from one island of the Moluccas differ in any way from Variations,those of another. Scolopax rochussenii, Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierh. 1866, p. 254. Neoscolopax rochusseni (Schlegel), Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Genov. xviii. p. 331 (1882). Synonymy. Plates.—Hitherto unfigured.H

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