43. limosa. 373 



b". Lower back and rump dusky brown 

 witb wbite edgings to the feathers, 



which have also white bars novce zealandice, p. 377. 



b'. Tail black; with a white base to the inner 



primaries limosa, p. 381. 



b. Axiharies slaty blackish like the under wing- 



coverts; tail black with a white base .... hudsonica, p. 388. 



c. Axillaries cinnamon rufous like the under 



wing-coverts and quill-lining ; tail banded 



with dusky brown and rufous fedoa, p. 391. 



1. Limosa lapponica. 

 Bar-tailed Godwit. 



The Godwit or Yarwelph,^4/fo'n, Nat. Hist. B. ii. p. 64 (1738, nee tab.). 

 La Grande Barge grise, Briss. Orn. v. p. 272, pi. xxiv. fig. 2 (1760). 

 La Barge rousse, Briss. t. c. p. 281, pi. xxv. fig. 1 ; DAubent, PL 



Enl. viii. pi. 900; Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vii. p. 505 (1780). 

 La Grande Barge rousse, Briss. Orn. v. p. 284 (1700). 

 Scolopax lapponica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 246 (1766). 

 Scolopax asgocephala, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 246 (1766); Gm. Syst. 



Nat. i. p. 607 (1788). 

 Common Godwit, Lath. Gen. Syn. hi. pt. i. p. 144 (1785). 

 Scolopax leucophasa, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 719 (1790). 

 Tringa gregaria, Otto, Buffon, Uebers. vol. xxvi. p. 242 (1797 : teste 



Dresser). 

 Totanus otocephalus, Bechst. Orn. Taschenb. ii. p. 288 (1803). 

 Totanus leucophaeus, Bechst. t. c. p. 289. 

 Totanus ferrugineus, Meyer, Taschenb. ii. p. 374 (1810). 

 Limosa ferruginea, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 180 (1811). 

 Limosa meyeri, Leisler, Nachir. Bechst. Natierg. ii. p. 172 (1815) ; 



Brehm, Vog. Deutsehl. p. 027 (1831) : Naum. Vog. Deutschl. viii. 



p. 428, pi. 214 (1836) ; Nordm. in Demid. Toy. Buss. Merid. iii. 



p. 254 (1840) ; Reichenb. Grail, tab. lxwi. fig* 567-68 (1850). 

 Limosa noveboracensis, Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. etc. Brit. Mus. 



p. 32 (1816). 

 Limosa ;egocephala, Leach, t. c. p. 32 (1816) ; Seebohm §• Harvii- 



Brown, Ibis, 1876, p. 292 (Lower Petchora) ; Biddulph, Lbis, 1881, 



p. 96 (Gilgit) ; Scully, t. c. p. 588. 

 Limicula meyeri, Vteill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. iii. p. L49 (1816). 

 Limicula lapponica, J'ieill. t.c. p. 250; Roue, Orn. Prov. pi. 305 (1825). 

 Limosa leucopha-a, Cuvier, Regne Anim. p. 488 (1817). 

 Limosa rata, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 60S (1820) ; Werner, Atlas, 



Grail, pi. 20 (1827) ; Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 107 (1828) ; Brehm, 



Vog. Deutschl. p. 628(1831'); Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 554 (1831) ; 



Menetr. Cat. Rais. Ccatc. p. 51 (1832) : Jenyru, Man. Brit. Vertebr. 



p. 202 (1835); Gould, B. Eur. iv. pi. 306 (1837); Bp. Comp. 



List B. Eur. $ N. Amer. p. 52 (1831); Crespon, Orn. Gard, 



p. 437 (1*10): Keys. ,\- Was. Wirb. Eur. pp. lxxiv. 213 (1840) ; 



Nordm. in Demid. Toy. Rtus. Merid. iii. p. 255 (1840: Caspian) : 



Webb $• Berth. Orn. Canar. p. 38 (1841 ) ; Srhl. Rev. Crit. p. lxxx\ ii 



(1844) ; Hfiihle, Beitr. Orn. Griechenl. p. 102 (1844); Thomps. B. 



Irel. ii. p. 226 (I860); Reichenb. Grail, tab. lxxvi. figs. 565- 



66 (1850): Ej'arb. Danm. Fugle, pi. xxxiii. b (1851) ; Macgill. 



Brit. B. iv. p. 260 (1852); Schl. Vog. Nederl. pi. 220 (1854): 



Licht. Nomencl. Av. Mus. Bend. p. 91(1854); Hewits. Eggs Brit. 



