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PR^COCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL^. 



extended lines, presenting an irregular front, Avhicli nndulates and breaks as the 

 tiock advances. On such occasions it rarely utters any cries. 



According to Mr. ]\Ioore, a few of this species remain about Sarasota Bay, Florida, 

 daring the summer nuinths, although the larger portion leave for their northern 

 breeding-grounds. Those wliicli remain do not exhibit any symptoms of being mated. 

 ^Ir. Moore does not credit the statement that tliis species ever breeds near Charles- 

 ton : the fact is assumed, rather than proved. The plumage of those that remain in 

 Florida is preserved imchanged. 



Three eggs of this species, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, and obtained 

 in ^Minnesota, range in length from 2.22 to 2.33 inches, and from 1.56 to l.GO inches 

 in breadth. Their ground-color is a pale greenish drab. Over the egg are scattered 

 markings in the form of small blotches of olivaceous-umber. These become larger 

 at the greater end of the egg, and intermixed with them are also a few washes of a 

 dilute purplish slate. Three eggs in my own collection — one from Cleveland, Ohio, 

 and two from Northwestern Iowa — do not materially vary. In regard to the nest of 

 this bird we have no direct information. 



Limosa lapponica novae-zealandise. 



THE PACIFIC GODWIT. 



Limosa novce-zealandicc, Gi!AY, Voy. Erebus & Tenor, Bh'ds, 1845, 13. — Cass. Orn. U. S. Expl. 



Exp. 1848, 314 (Rose I., Samoau Group). 

 Limosa lapponica, var. novce-zcakmdice, Gray, 1. c. 

 Limosa lapponica novm-zcalandia:, Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. III. 1880, 200 ; Nom. N. 



Am. B. 1881, no. 544. 

 Limosa uropygialis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, 38; Birds Australia, VI. 1848, pi. xxix. — Finsch & 



Haiitl. Beitr. Fauna Centr. Polyn. 1867, 177. — Baikd, Trans. Chicago Acad. I. 1869, 320, pi. 



32 (Alaska). — Dall & Baxnist. lb. — Coues, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 631. 

 Limosa Foxii, Pkalk, U. S. Expl. Exped. 1848, 231, pi. Ixv. 



Hab. Shores and isLuuls of the Pacitic Ocean, from Australia to Alaska. Not recorded from 

 the Pacific coast of America south of Alaska, except Lower California (L. Belding). 



Sp. Char. Adult in summer : Back and scapulars dusky, irregularly spotted with whitish and 

 li,L;ht rulous ; wing-coverts light grayish, with dusky shaft-streaks and whitish borders, the anterior 



smaller coverts darker and more uniform grayish ; primaries and primary-coverts dusky, the inner 

 quills bordered with white. Rump dusky grayish, the feathers bordered with white ; upper 

 tail -coverts white, tinged with light cinnamon, and irregularly spotted with dusky ; tail grayish, 

 in-egularly barred, and narrowly ti])i)ed with white. Head, neck, and lower parts, light cinnamon, 



