BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 



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HUDSONIAN GODWIT (Limosa hoemastica) . 



Common and local names: Goose-bird; Black-tail; Spotrump; Whiterump; Ring- 

 tailed Marlin. 



j^ength. — 14 to 16 inches; bill 3.20, slightly up-curved. 



Adult in Spring. — Blackish above, mottled with buflF; head and neck 



rufous, streaked with dusky; rump blackish; upper tail coverts mostly 



white; tail black, wliite at base, tipped slightly with white; under parts 



chestnut, barred with dusky and white; bill reddish or flesh color, black 



toward tip; legs and feet slaty. 

 Adult in Winter. — Upper parts unmarked brownish gray, white spot still 



conspicuous; buffy whitish or dingy white below; breast grayer. 

 Young. — Lower parts similar to winter adult; upper parts brownish gray. 

 Field Marks. — Much smaller than the Marbled Godwit. The white spot 



just below the black rump and at the base of the black tail is conspicuous 



in flight. 

 Season. — A very rare spring and irregular but less rare autumn migrant 



coastwise. 

 Range. — 'North, and South America. Breeds from lower Anderson River 



southeast to central Keewatin; winters in Argentina, Patagonia and 

 Falkland Islands; in migration occurs principally east of the Great 

 Plains, most commonly on Atlantic coast in autumn and in Mississippi 

 valley in spring; casual in Alaska. 



