

GREAT MARBLED GODWIT. 



(Limosafedoa, Vieill. Boxap. No. 2GQ. Richard. North. Zool. ii. p. 

 305 G7-eat Godicit, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 4G5. No. 371. Marbled 

 Godicit, Ibid. Suppl. p. 68. No. 471. Scolopaz fedoa, Wilson, vii. 

 p. 30. pi. 56. fig. 4. [female.] Phil. Museum, No. 4019.) 



Sp. CiiARACT. — Bill recurved; rump uniform in color with tlie 

 rest of the plumage ; tail brownish, banded with black. — Summer 

 plumage, dusky-brown, varied with rufous ; beneath pale ferru- 

 ginous. IVlnter dress, cinereous ; beneath whitish. Male, with 

 the breast marked with undulating bars of dusky-brown. 



The Marbled Godwit is only a transient visiter along the 

 sea coasts of the United States, in the spring and fall, on its 

 way to and from its breeding place in the north. Accord- 

 ing to Richardson, they abound in the summer season in 



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