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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The grass-bird or pectoral sandpiper, Tringa (Actodromas) maculata.
  • noun The common American or Wilson's snipe, Gallinago wilsoni or delicatula. B.S. Barton, 1799. See cut under Gallinago.

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