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PR.ECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL^. 



a deep greenish drab ; the markings are scattered in the form of irregular blotches 

 of a dilute umber. The other measures 2.25 by 1.42 inches, and the ground-color is 

 of a pale drab, the markings being much more pronounced than in the other specimen, 

 and more aggregated toward the larger end, as well as more irregular in form, and 

 are of a much deeper shade of umber. 



Limosa hcemastica. 



THE HUDSONIAN GODWIT. 



Scolopax hcemastica, LiNN. S. N. c-d. Id, 1. H:>^, 147 (based on FAlwards, pi. 1.38). 



Limosa hamastica, CouKS, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1880, 100 ; Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 629. — 



RiDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 545. 

 Scolopax alba, Linn. S. N. I. 1766, 247 (based on Fedna canadensis, Edw. pi. 139 ; Limosa cccndida, 



Bkiss. V. 290 ; Tetanus canadensis, Einv. j.l. 139, f. 1; Tetanus candidus, Biiiiss. V. 207). 

 Scolopax Candida, LiNX. 1. c. 

 Scolopax lapjjonica, var. /3. Gmel. S. X. 1. 1788. 

 Scolopax Jlitdsonica, Lai'H. Ind. Orn. II. 1790, 720. 

 Limosa Hudsonica, Sw. & liicii. V. B. A. II. 1831, 396. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 175. — AuD. Orn. 



Biog. III. 1835, 426 ; Y. 592, pi. 258 ; Synop. 1839, 247 ; B Am. Y. 1842, 335, pi. 349. — 



Cassix, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 741. — Baird, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 548. — CouES, 



Key, 1872, 258 ; Check List, 1S73, no. 429 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 494. 

 Limosa mclanura, Bo.XAr. Specc. Comj). 1827, no. 204 (nee Leisl.). 

 Limosa cegocephnla, I^onai'. Synop. 1828, 327 (nee Linn.). 

 Limosa Edwardsi, Sw. & liicii. F. B. A. II. 1831, 398. 

 Limosa aiistralis. Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. 1844, 95. 



Hab. Eastern North America and the whole of Middle and South America. No West Indian 

 localities recorded e.xcept Cuba. Breeds only in the high north. 



Sp. Char. Smaller than L. fcdoa. Summer adult : Above, blackish brown, irregularly spotted 

 and barred with pale ochraceous, tlie rump plain brownish black ; upper tail-coverts immaculate 

 white ; wing-coverts and shorter quills \Aim\ dark brownish gray ; primaries brownish black, their 



shafts white. Lower parts chestnut-rufous, narrowly barred with brownish black, the feathers of 

 the belly, etc., often tipi)ed with white. Tail black, with the base and tip (narrowly) white. 

 Lining of wings and axillars plain smoky black. Winter plunuige : Above, plain dull brownish 

 gray ; beneath, white, the breast shaded witli brownish gray. Other characters as in summer dress. 

 Young: Somewhat like the winter plumage, but each feather of dorsal region marked with a sub- 

 terminal dusky crescent and a nari'ower terminal one of dull ochraceous ; beneath, very pale drab, 

 or dull light buff, the abdomen whitish, and the jugulum more grayish. "Bill grayish yellow, 

 dark brown along the ridge of the upper mandible, and blackish towards the tips of both ; iris 

 brown; feet light grayish blue" (Audubon). 



