BIRDS or NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 191 



CouES, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 419; Check List, 1873, no. 430; 2nd ed., 1882, 

 no. 631; in Elliott's Affairs in Alaska, 1875, 187 (Pribilof Islands, not breed- 

 ing). — Dall, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., v, 1873, 28 (Akutan Pass, near Unalaska, 

 June 2); v, 1874, 275 (Unalaska, June 9). — Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.^ 

 1877, 338 (Herbert River, Queensland); Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., vii, 1883, 

 41 (Soloman Islands), 88 (Lord Howe Island); x, 1886, 255 (Claremont Island); 

 Tab. List Austral. Birds, 1888, 20.— Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., i, 

 1877, 60 (Cape York; Bet Island).— Blakiston and Pryer, Ibis, 1878, 220 

 (Yokohama and Yezo, Japan). — Layard (E. L. and L. C), Ibis, 1878, 262 

 (New Caledonia); 1880, 232(Loyalty Islands)); 1882, 534, 544 (New Caledonia). 

 ^RosEMBERG, MaUiv Archipel., 1878, 278 (Celebes), 373 (Aru), 563 (New 

 Guinea). — Elliott, Mon. Pribylov Group, 1882, 130 (straggler). — ^Hartlaub, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1883, 279 (Yukon River). — Bogdanow, Consp. Av. Imp. 

 Ross., 1884, 87, part (Bering Island). — Everett, Journ. Straits Branch Asiat. 

 Soc, 1889, 209 (Sarawak; Labuan).— Etheridge, Lord Howe Island, 1889, 

 17. — Styan, Ibis, 1891, 331 (Lower Yangste River, China, migrant), 500 

 (Shanghai).— De la Touche, Ibis, 1892, 500 (Swatow, China, Jan.).— 

 Rickett, Ibis, 1894, 225 (Foochow, China).— Meyer and Wiglesworth, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1894, 252 (Talaut Islands). 



[Limosa] uropygialis Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 43, no. 10261. — Coues, Key N. 

 Am. Birds, 1872, 258. 



Ujmosa] uropygialis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2nd ed., 1884, 636. 



Limosa ru/a . . . var. uropygialis Ridgway, Am. Nat., \'iii, Feb., 1874, 110 (crit.V 



Limosa ru/a uropygialis Taczanowski, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, x, 1885, 475 

 (Sidemi).— Seebohm, Geog. Distr. Charadriidse, 1887, 26, 387; Ibis, 1888, 

 348 (Great Liakoff Island, Siberia). 



Limosa uropigialis I^lakiston and Pryer, Trans. Asiat. Soc. Japan, \dii, 1880, 194. 



Limosa ru/a (not of Temminck, 1820) Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 

 1850, 114. — ^MiDDENDORPF, llcis. Sibir., Zool., 1851, 217 (Taimyr Iliver, 74 = 

 N. lat.). — Seebohm, Birds Japanese Emp., 1890, 329. — Schalow, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1891, 261 (Siberia; Kamchatka; Kuril Islands; etc.). 



Limosa lapponica (not Scolopax lapponica Linnaeus) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1858, 196 (Hakodate, Japan).— Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, 91 (Peking).— 

 Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 711 (North Bohol). — Blakiston, 

 Amend. List Birds Japan, 1884, 11. — Steere, List Birds and Mam. Philip- 

 pine Exped., 1890, 26 (Negros). 



Limosa lapponica, var. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 364 (East Gilolo). 



Limosa lapponica seu ru/a Swinhoe, Ibis. 1861, 410 (Amoy). 



Gallinago punctata Ellman. Zoologist, 1861, 7470 (New Zealand). 



VETOLA H^MASTICA (Linnaeus). 



HUDSONIAN GODWIT. 



Adults in summer (sexes alike).— Head and neck pale dull buff or 

 cinnamon-buff to dull buffy whitish, streaked with dusk'y, the streaks 

 broadest and most distinct on pileum, the chin, extreme upper throat 

 and a broad supraloral stripe immaculate or minutely streaked; 

 scapulars and interscapulars sooty black or dark fuscous, irregularly 

 spotted or barred, mostly along edges, with pale brownish buffy or 

 cinnamomeous; wing-coverts plain grayish brown, darker on lesser 

 coverts, the distal greater coverts broadly tipped with white, the 

 posterior or proximal middle coverts sometimes more or less 

 spotted with buffy or cuinamomeous ; secondaries and proximal pri- 



