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to Alberta, Assiniboia and Manitoba, becoming scarce every- 

 where. In winter to the Gulf coast, California, Mexico and parts 

 of Central America and the West Indies. 



In Missouri Marbled Godwits could formerly be called fairly 

 common transient visitants in April and September; they are 

 now rare. 



251. LiMOSA HAEMASTiCA (Linn.). Hudsonian Godwit. 



Scolopax haemastica. Limosa hvdsonica. Black-tailed or Ring-tailed Godwit 

 or Marlin. 



Geog. Dist. — From southern South America to Arctic regions, 

 breeding in the high north and wandering through the east- 

 ern United States to South America. Rare on the Atlantic 

 coast. 



In Missouri a rather rare transient visitant in April and Oc- 

 . tober. A male in the Hurter collection was taken in St. Louis 

 Co., April 19, 1872, and two in the collection of the Cuivre Club 

 were killed on their grounds in St. Charles Co. 



254. Tot ANUS melanoleucus (Gmel.). Greater Yellow-legs. 



Scolopax melanoleuca. Gambetta melanoleuca. Scolopax vociferus. Totanus 

 vociferus. Tell-tale. Stone Snipe. Greater Yellowshanks. 



Geog. Dist. — Nearly the whole of America ; breeding formerly 

 from Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin northward, at present from 

 northern Nebraska north to the Mackenzie River and Sitka. 

 In winter from southern California and the Gulf States south to 

 Argentina and Chile. 



In Missouri Greater Yellow-legs are still fairly common and 

 generally distributed transient visitants, especially in spring, 

 less so in fall. The first appear from the south during the last 

 week of March, seldom earlier (March 9, 1903, Kansas City, 

 Bryant). They become more general during the second week of 

 April and are most plentiful in the second half of that month. 

 In ordinary seasons they disappear in the first half of May, but 

 in cool Mays some have been known to stay toward the end of 

 May and even into June (June 5, 1894, Keokuk, Currier). In 

 fall migration their appearance is more irregular. Near Keokuk 

 they have been found as early as August 28, 1899, and as late as 

 November 9, 1895, also at Independence (Tindall) November 

 7, 1892, but they are most likely to be present about the middle 

 of October. 



