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Manipur) ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. B. p. 20 (1880 : Port Dar- 

 win ; Port Essington ; N. S. W.) ; Everett, Journ. Straits Branch 

 As. Soc. 1889, p. 209 (Pontianak) ; Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 331 (Lower 

 Yangtse), p. 5U7 (Shanghai) ; Be La louche, Ibis, 1892, p. 500 

 (Swatow, Jan. ; Foochow, Aug., Sept.) ; Styan, Ibis, 1893, p. 437 

 (Hainan) ; Chapman, Ibis, 1895, p. 289 (W. Jutland). 



The Black-tailed Godwit, Yarrell, British Birds, ii. p. 563 (1843). 



Limosa brachyptera, Brchm, Vogelf. p. 309 (1855). 



Limosa grisea, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 291 ; id. Vogelf. p. 309 

 (1855). 



Limosa brevipes (nee Gray), Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Scolopaces, p. 21 

 (1864) ; David ty Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 460 (1877) ; Blakist. Xf 

 Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 220 ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia etc. iii. p. 328 

 (1882); Blakist. Amended List B. Jap. p. 11 (1884); Gigl. 8f 

 Salvad. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 588 (Olga Bay, Corea) ; Salvad. Agg. 

 Om. Papuasia, etc. iii. p. 203 (1891). 



Limosa segocephala melanuroides, I)yb. $• Tacz. Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, ix. p. 146 (1884); Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, 

 p. 338 (1885 : Kamtchatka). 



Totanus melanurus, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 162 (1885). 



Totanus melanurus melanuroides, Seebohm, t. c. p. 163. 



Limosa limosa, Ridgio. Proc. U.S.Nat. Mus. viii. p. 356 (1885); 



A. O. U. Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 154 (1886) ; Iiidgw. Man. N. 

 Amer. B. p. 164 (1887) ; Brusina, Motr. etc. (Orn. Croat.) p. 90 

 (1890) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 115 (Fao) ; Hagerup, B. Greenl. 

 p. 55 (1891 : S. Greenland, chance visitor) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogels. 

 Mus. Senck. p. 223 (1891). 



Limosa belgica, Salvad. JElenco Ucc. Ital. p. 228 (1886) ; I ait, Ibis, 



1887, p. 393 (Portugal, March) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Gen. (2) vi. 



p. 311 (1888) ; Sawiders, Man. Brit. B. p. 609 (1889); Macph. 



Vertebr. Faun. Lakeland, p. 405 (1892) ; Irby, Orn. Straits Gibr. 



p. 289 (1895). 

 Limosa limosa melanuroides, Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 131 



(1887 : Commander Isl.) ; id. 'Auk, v. p. 197 (1888) ; Hartert, 



Kat. Vogels. Mus. Senck. p. 223 (1891 : Australia). 

 Limosa melanura melanuroides, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. 



p. 391 (1888); Nikolski, Faun. Sakhal. p. 266 (1889); Seebohm, 



B. Japan. Fmp. p. 329 (1890) ; Berezowski $ Bianchi, Aves Gan- 

 su, p. 5 (1894). 



Limosa melanura brevipes, Campbell, Ibis, 1892, p. 246 (Corea) ; 

 Tacz. Mem. Acad. Imp. St. Petersb. (7) xxxix. p. 929 (1893). 



Adult male in winter plumage. General colour above ashy brown, 

 with slightly paler edges to the feathers ; lower back and rump 

 blackish brown ; upper tail-coverts white, the long ones tipped 

 with black ; lesser wing-coverts darker brown than the back ; 

 median coverts dusky brown, lighter brown externally and fringed 

 with white ; greater coverts broadly tipped with white, forming a 

 wing-band ; bastard-wing blackish ; primary-coverts also blackish, 

 the inner ones broadly tipped with white ; primaries blackish, with 

 white shafts, the greater part of the inner webs white, and then 

 sub-terminally brown, the white extending to the base of the outer 

 web on all but the first primary and increasing in extent on the 

 inner primaries and secondaries, the latter being white with a 



