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‘1. Limosa fedoa. 
The Greater American Godwit, Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, iii. p. 137, t. 137°. 
Scolopax fedoa, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 244°. 
Limosa fedoa, Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1859, p. 64°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 230°; Salv. Ibis, 1865, 
p. 190°; 1889, p. 379°; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 89"; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 210°; 
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 308°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 142°°; Sumichr. La Nat. v. 
p. 232”; Baird, Brewer, & Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 255°; Herrera, La Nat. 
(2) i. pp. 186“, 828"; Elliot, N. Amer. Shore-Birds, p. 105°; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. 
Birds, 2nd ed. p. 91*°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 391". 
Ptil. hiem. Supra brunnea, pallide cinnamomeo maculata vel fasciata; alis cinnamomeis, plumis medialiter 
brunneo striatis, tectricibus majoribus vix brunneo vermiculatim fasciatis; remigibus cinnamomeis, 
primariis extimis extus et ad apicem saturate sepiariis, proximis paullo cinnamomeo extus vermiculatis ; 
secundariis plerisque cinnamomeis concoloribus, intimis dorso concoloribus brunneo fasciatis ; dorso postico, 
uropygio, supracaudalibus rectricibusque cinnamomeis, brunneo transfasciatis; pileo brunneo, plumis 
medialiter saturate brunneis, quasi striatis; loris fuscescentibus; supercilio lato isabellino; facie laterali 
isabellina, minute brunneo striolata ; corpore subtus pallide cervino ; subalaribus, axillaribus et remigibus 
intus clare cinnamomeis: rostro nigricanti-brunneo, mandibula dimidiatim carnea ; pedibus cyanescenti- 
griseis; iride brunnea. Long. tota circa 16-5, ale 9°3, caude 3:4, culm. 4:6, tarsi 2°8. (Descr. avis 
adults ex Chiapam. Mus. nostr.) 
Piil. estiv. Supra ptilosi hiemali similis, sed nigricantior ; gutture albidiore ; collo minute brunneo striato et 
hypochondriis brunneo anguste fasciatis distinguenda. (Descr. avis adults ex Dakota. Mus. Brit.) 
Hab. Norru Amenica, breeding in the interior, from Iowa and Nebraska, northward to 
Manitoba and the Saskatchewan !°,—Mexico (Sumichrast!!), Matamoros (Dresser), 
Mazatlan (Grayson ®, Abert®), Guanajuato (Dugés'°), Valley of Mexico (Her- 
rera'314), Merida in Yucatan (Schott®), Cozumel I. (Gawmer?'); Britisu 
Honpuras, Belize (Leyland **) ; Guaremana, Chiapam (0. S.° !”).—Cusa 1”. 
The Marbled Godwit breeds in the interior of North America as far north as 
Manitoba, its nesting-range being of about the same extent as that of Numenius 
longirostris, and, like that species, it does not visit the Arctic Regions. It is a winter 
visitor to Central America, being common at Mazatlan during that season, remaining till 
late in the spring, while, according to Grayson, a few stop throughout the summer’. 
‘Herrera states that this Godwit is very common in the Valley of Mexico !%, and Salvin 
found it abundant on the Lagoon of Chiapam °. 
L. fedoa reaches its northern home in small parties and pairs soon after arrival. 
On the autumn passage it frequents the saltings and mud-flats in flocks of from twenty 
to thirty individuals, but sometimes thousands of these birds have been observed 
together. They often feed in company and exhibit much attachment to each other. 
The nest is a depression in the ground with a slight lining of grass, and is usually found 
near water. The eggs are four in number, of an olive-drab colour, with various shades 
of yellow and umber-brown ”. 
