of the District of Montreal, 3G5 



farrows extend nearly tlie whole length ; nostrils basal, lateral, 

 linear and pervious ; middle and external toes connected at the 

 base ; thumb short and slender, scarcely touching the ground. 



L.fedoa. Great Marbled God wit. 



Scolopax fedoa of Wilson ! 



Liniosa feclon. Baird ! 

 D.c. Bill incurved ; rump nniforra in colour with the rest of 

 the plumage ; tail brownish banded with black. Summer plu- 

 mage dusky brown varied with rufous, beneath pale ferruginous ; 

 winter dress cinereous, beneath whitish ; male with the breast 

 marked with undulating bars of dusky brown* This bird is very 

 rarely met with in this district ; an occasional straggler however 

 has been seen as I have been informed. 



L. Hudsonica. Hudsonian Godwit. 



Scolopax Hudsonica of Latham ! and Pennant I 



Limosa Hudsonica. Baird ! 



v.s.p. Ridge and tip of bill brown, the rest purplish flesb 

 colour ; leo's and feet black ; irides dark hazel ; eo-o-s 4, dark 

 olive spotted with pale brown. 



Dorsal aspect. Crown of he^d and occiput spotted wood 

 brown and greyish white ; line from the nostrils over the eye, 

 white with faint spots ; another from above the angle of the 

 mouth to the eye woody brown ; neck, interscapulary region, 

 and scapulars blackish brown with spots of rusty white ; the long 

 scapulars with ragged outer vanes and spotted with brownisti 

 white ; rump white ; tail white at the base, terminating iu a deep 

 blackish brown and tipped with white ; great and small wing 

 coverts dusky, with pale ragged edgings ; the lower row of the 

 great coverts edged with white ; primaries clove brown, the shafts 

 white to near the tips, and inclining to white on the inner vanes. 



Ventral aspect. Chin white ; cheeks white spotted with wood 

 brown ; neck, breast and belly ferruginous, the feathers with a 

 subterminal band of blackish brown, generally zigzag, and tipped 

 with white flank feathers, barred with blackish brown ; tail co- 

 verts with their basal halves white, their distal halves ferruginous 

 and elegantly barred with blackish brown ; the lateral coverts 

 paler than the central ones. 



1st primary longest ; the others graduated ; longest scapular 

 subequal to the 4th primary. Length 1 of inches; alar expanse 

 25 inches ; length of the bill 3 inches. 



