494 LIMOSA HUDSONICA, HUDSONIAN GOD\YIT. 



eggs. The spots are pretty evenly distributed, thongb rather larger in 

 two instances, and more numerous in the other instance, about the butt 

 thiin elsewhere. These markings are of various umber brown shades, 

 with the usual stone-gray shell spots. 



LIMOSA HUDSONICA, (Lath.) Sw. 



Hudsonian or Black-tailed Godwit. 



Scolopax alba et Candida, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 247 (based on Fedoa canadensis, Edv/., 

 pi. 139; Limosa Candida, Buiss., v, 21)0; Totanus canadensis, Edw., pi. 139, f. 1; 

 Totanus candidus, Biuss., v, 207 : whence also Limosa edtcardsii, Sw. «& KiCH., 

 F. B. A. ii, 1831, 398). 



Scolopax Japponica, var. /?, Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788. 



Scolopax hudsornca, Lath., Intl. Oru. ii, 1790, 720. 



Limosa hiidsonica, Sw. «fc Rich., F. B. A. ii, 1831 (Edw., pi. 138).— Nutt., ii, 1834, 175.— 

 AuD., Orn. Biog. iii, 183.5, 426; v, .''>92; pi. 258; Syu. 1839, 247 ; B. A. v, 1842, 

 33.'), pi. 349.— Bp., List, 1838, 52.-GiH., B. L. 1. 1844, 260.— Putn., Pr. Ess. lust, 

 i, 1856, 217.— Bd., B. N. A. 1858, 741.— Sol.. P. Z. S. 1860, 387 (Falklands).— 

 Cab., J. f. O. iv, 3.50(Caba).— Dakw., Voy. Beagle, Birds, 129 (Chiloe).— Pklz., 

 NovaraReise, Vog. 128 (Chiloe).— Phil., Cat. 35 (Chili).— Scl. & Salv., P. Z. 

 S. 1869, 252 (Venezuela).— Scl., P. Z. S. 1860, 387 (Magellan Straits and Falk- 

 lands).— Pelz., Oru. Bras. 308 (Brazil).— Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860, No. 

 222. — BoAHDM., Pr. Bost. Soc. ix, 1862, 129 (Maine, niigratorv). — Verr., Pr. Ess. 

 lust, iii, 1862, 159.— Allen, t&(f7. iv, 1864, 87.— McIWR., ihid.v, 1866, 93.— Coues, 

 ibid. V, 1868, 296.— Coues, Pr. Bost. Soc. xii, 1868, 123.— Dall & Banx., Tr. 

 Chic. Acad, i, 1869, 293.— Turnb., B. E. Pa. 1869, 32.— Mayn., Guide, 1870, 142.— 

 Coues, Key, 1872, 258.— Snow, B. Kaus. 1873, 10.— Scl., P. Z. S. 1873, 456 (South 

 America). — Ridgw., Ann. Lye. N. Y. x, 1874, 385 (Illinois). 



Limosa melannra, Bp., Specchio Comp. 1827, No. 204; not of authors. 



Limosa agocephala, Bp., Syn. 1828, 327 ; not of authors. 



Limosa australis, Gray, Cat. Br. Mus. 1844, 95. {Sclater.) 



Hah, — Northern and Eastern North America. West Indies. South America. Breieds 

 far northward. Not noted west of the Rocky Mountains. Rare along the Atlantic. 

 Observed by none of the Expeditions. 



This Godwit is much less abundant in the United States than the 

 preceding, and appears to range chiefly along the Atlantic coast. It is, 

 however, included by Prof. Snow among the birds of Kansas on Prof. 

 Baird's authority. I have never seen it alive. Its breeding resorts are 

 entirely beyond our limits, iu hyperborean regions. A set of four eggs 

 oi Limosa Imdsonica is in the Smithsonian, from Anderson River, wliere 

 they were secured by Mr. MacFarlane, June 9. They measure 2.15 to 

 2.20 in length by about 1.40 in breadth. The ground is a very heavily- 

 shaded olive-drab, much darker (almost as in a Loon's or Jiiger's Qgg) in 

 two of the specimens than in the other. In these darker specimens the 

 markings are almost lost in the general heavy color, merely appearing 

 a little darker ; they are chiefly evident at the greater end. In the 

 other the markings, of the same general character, are, however, much 

 more conspicuous, owing to the lighter ground. 



TOTANUS SEMIPALMATUS, (Gm.) Temm. 

 Seniipalmated Tattler; Wlllet; Stone Snipe. 



Scolopax scmipalmata, Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 659.— Lath., lud. Oru. ii, 1790, 722 (Arct. 



Zool. ii, No. 380, pi. '20, f. 2; Lath., Syu. v, 152).— Wils., Am. Oru. vii, 1813, 27, 

 , pi. 56, f. 3. 



Totanus semipulmatus, Tem.m., Man. Orn. ii, 637.— Bp., Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 206.— Sw. & 



Rich., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 388, pi. 67 (north to 56°).- Aud., Orn. Biog. iii, 1835, 



510; v, 1839,585; pi. 274; Syu. 18.39,245; B. Am. v, 1842,324, pi. 347.— GiR., B. 



L. I. 1844, 254.— WooDH., Sitgr. Re]). 1853, 99 (New Mexico).— Putn., Pr. Ess. 



Inst, i, 1856, 217.— IIekum., P. R. R. Rep. x, 1859, pt. vi, 65.— CoUES, Key, 258. 

 Totanus {Catoptrophonis) scmipalDiatus, Bp., Syu. 1828, 328. — Nutt., Man. ii, 1834, 144. 



