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coast in autumn and rare but regular on the coast of British Cokimbia north to 

 St. Michael, Alaska, and to northeastern Siberia; also once in California. 

 Casual or accidental in Bermuda, the West Indies, western Europe, and Japan. 



Genus LIMOSA Brisson. 



Linrosa Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 261; V, 48. Type, by tautonymy, Liinosa 

 Brisson = Scolopax limosa Linnaeus. 



Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus). Marbled Godwit. [249.] 



Scolopax Fedoa Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 17.58, 146. Based on the 

 Greater American Godwit Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, 137. (in 

 America septentrionali = Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern Alberta and southern Manitoba south to 

 South Dakota (formerly to Utah, Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin). Winters 

 from central California, Louisiana, Florida, and Georgia south to Ecuador and 

 Peru (rarely Argentina); in migration occurs on the Pacific coast north to 

 British Columbia and formerly (but now very rare) on the Atlantic coast south 

 to the Lesser Antilles. Casual in southern Ontario, southern Quebec, Missis- 

 sippi Valley, and Nova Scotia; accidental in Alaska. 



• Limosa lapponica lapponica (Linnaeus). Bar-tailed Godwit. [250a.] 



Scolopax lapponica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 147. (in 

 Lapponia = Lapland.) 



Range. — Breeds in northern Scandinavia, northern Finland, etc. Winters 

 in northern Africa and southwestern Asia. Accidental in Massachusetts (Cape 

 Cod, Sept. 16, 1907).! 



Limosa lapponica baueri Naumann. Pacific Godwit. [250.] 



Limosa Baueri Naumann, Naturg. Vogel Deutschl., VIII, 1836, 429. 

 (Neuholland = Australia.) 



Range. — Breeds from eastern Siberia and Kamchatka to western Alaska 

 (Point Barrow, Kotzebue Sound, Colville delta, Nome, and Unalaska). 

 Winters in the Malay Archipelago, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceanica; 

 migrates through China, Japan, and the Philippines. Casual in migration 

 north to Point Barrow; accidental in Hawaii. 



Limosa haemastica (Linnaeus). Hudsonian Godwit. [251.] 



Scolopax Haemastica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 147. Based on 

 The Red-breasted Godwit Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, 138. (in 

 America septentrionali = Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Breeds on the lower Anderson River, Mackenzie, west to Port 

 Clarence, Alaska, and east to Hudson Bay (ChurchUl) and Southampton 



1 Bent, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 142, 1927, 295. 



