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general, breeding from Iowa, Dakota, etc., north to Alaska, 

 migrating south in winter to Guatemala, Yucatan, and Cuba. 

 249. L. fedoa (Linn.). Marbled Godwit. 

 &. Upper tail-coverts white, spotted with dusky ; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts white, marked iri*egularly with dusky. 

 d}. Eump white, marked with broad, acuminate streaks of dusky; 

 head, neck, and lower parts very deep cinnamon in summer 

 adult; length about 17.00, wing 8.25-8.50, culmen 2.95-3.80, 

 tarsus 2.00-2.15, middle toe 1.10-1.20. Hab. Northern portion 

 of eastern hemisphere. 



L. lapponica (Linn.). Bar-tailed Godwit.^ 

 d?. Eump duskjT^, the feathers margined with white ; head, neck, and 

 lower parts paler cinnamon in summer adult. Summer adult : 

 Head, neck, and lower parts, plain cinnamon-color; back and 

 scapulars irregularly varied with blackish, whitish, and light 

 rusty; wing-coverts light grayish, with dusky shaft-streaks 

 and whitish margins. Winter plumage : Head, neck, and lower 

 parts whitish, the head and neck streaked, the breast and sides 

 scantily and irregularly barred, with grayish brown ; back and 

 scapulars j^lain brownish gray ; otherwise, as in summer. Young : 

 Above, including wihg-coverts, light buffy grayish, or dull clay- 

 color, irregularly varied with dusky ; lower parts dull buffy 

 whitish, shaded across chest with deeper grayish buff. Length 

 14.60-16.00, wing 8.25-9.15, culmen 3.15-3.55, tarsus 2.00-2^20, 

 middle toe 1.10-1.20, Eggs 2.25 X 1-45, similar in color to 

 those of L. fedoa. Hab. Coasts of eastern Asia and across to 

 Alaska, migrating south in winter to ISTew Zealand and Austra- 

 lia; Lower California (casual, in winter). 



250. L. lapponica baueri (ISTaum.). Pacific Godwit. 

 b^. Tail not distinctly barred, but uniform black, with white base and tip. 



Upper tail-coverts crossed by a broad band of pure white ; longer 

 upper tail-coverts, rump, and axillars plain sooty blackish, or dusky ; 

 Tinder wing-coverts chiefly dusky. Slimmer plumage : Head and 

 neck pale chestnut, streaked with dusky ; lower parts deeper chest- 

 nut, barred with dusky ; back, etc., blackish, irregularly varied with 

 buffy. Winter plumage : Back, etc., plain dull brownish gray ; head, 

 neck, and lower parts dull whitish, or pale grayish buffy, shaded 

 with brownish gray anteriorly. Young : Back, etc., dull brownish 

 gray, each feather marked with a submargiual dusky crescent and 

 margined terminally with buffy ; beneath pale dull grayish buffy, 

 the belly whitish and chest more grayish. Length 14.00-16.75, 

 wing 8.10-8.60, culmen 2.85-3.45, tarsus 2.25-2.50, middle toe 1.15- 

 1.30. Eggs 2.20 X 1-42, ovate, deep olive, hair-brown, or broccoli- 



1 Scolopax lapponica Linn., S. N. ed. 10, i. 1758, 147. Limosa lapponica Gray, Gen. B. iii. 1849, 570. 



