CHARADRIIDAE— SCOLOPACIDAE. 



LIMOSA LIMOSA (L.). 



In fig. 6 on the plate in Poyntinq's Work *) tlie ground colour 

 is a yellowish white strewn with small r«s^co/o;//'C(^ spots and specks; 

 on the big half of the egg a few large underlying spots show 

 through purple grey. 



The eggs of this species cannot be distinguished with certainty 

 from those of Limosa lapponica (L.) — Bar-Tailed Godwit -). All 

 that canbe said is that the eggs of the latter are usually smaller 

 than those of L. limosa. 



•) Eggs of British Birds, Limicolac. Part. II. 



") See: Snouckaert, Avifauna Neerlandica, p. 106, no. 251. 



