flesh is at no time so savoury as that of the common American Snipe. The cry of this species when on wing is a single and rather mellow _weet_. When on the ground I have heard them emit a continued guttural rolling sound, such as is on certain occasions given out by the species last mentioned. Their call-note resembles the soft and pleasing sound of a whistle; but I have never heard them emit it while travelling. Nothing is known respecting their breeding, and yet there can be little doubt that many of them must rear young within the limits of the Union. By the Creoles of Louisiana the Red-breasted Snipe is named “Becassine de Mer,” as well as “Carouk.” In South Carolina it is more abundant in the autumnal months than in spring, when I should think they fly directly across from the Floridas toward Cape Hatteras, as my friend Dr BACHMAN informs me that he never saw one of them in spring in the vicinity of Charleston. SCOLOPAX NOVEBORACENSIS, _Gmel._ Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 658.—_Lath._ Ind. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 723. SCOLOPAX GRISEA, _Gmel._ Syst. Nat. vol. i. p. 658.—_Lath._ Ind. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 724.—_Ch. Bonaparte_, Synopsis of Birds of United States, p. 330. RED-BREASTED SNIPE, _Wilson_, Amer. Ornith. vol. vii. p. 48, p. 58, fig. 2. Summer. SCOLOPAX NOVEBORACENSIS, NEW YORK GODWIT, _Richards. and Swains._ Fauna Bor.-Amer. vol. ii. p. 398. BROWN or RED BREASTED SNIPE, _Nuttall_, Manual, vol. ii. p. 181. Adult Male in summer. Plate CCCXXXV. Fig. 1. Bill twice as long as the head, subulate, straight, compressed for more than half its length, depressed towards the end. Upper mandible with the dorsal line declinate at the base, then straight, at the end slightly arched, that part being considerably enlarged, the ridge convex, towards the end flattened, the sides with a narrow groove extending to near the tip, the edges soft and obtuse or flattened, the tip narrowed but blunt. Nostrils basal, linear, very small. Lower mandible with the angle extremely long and narrow, the sides nearly erect, with a longitudinal groove, the edges flattened and directly meeting those of the upper mandible, the extremity enlarged, the tip contracted and rather blunt. Head rather small, oblong, narrowed anteriorly, the forehead elevated and rounded. Neck rather short. Body rather full. Legs of moderate length, slender; tibia bare below, scutellate before and behind; tarsus with numerous scutella before, smaller ones behind, and reticulated sides; toes very slender, free, with numerous scutella above, flattened and slightly marginate beneath; first very small and elevated, third with its claw scarcely so long as the tarsus, lateral toes nearly equal, the outer connected with the middle by a web. Claws small, slightly arched, compressed, rather acute.