43. uxoba. 389 



Limosa edWardsL Swains. Faun. Bor.-Ama:, Birds, p. 398, note 

 (18.31). 



The White Godwit, Nutiall, Man. Orn. ii. p. 179 (1834). 



Limosa auatralis, Gray, List Grail. Brit. Mus. p. 95 (1844: San 

 Salvador Bay, E. Falkland Isl.). 



Limosa alba, Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 570 (1847). 



Limosa hiemastica, Coues (ex J. inn. 1758), Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv.iv. 

 p. 641 (1878: Milk River); id. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1880. 

 p. 100; Ridqiv. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 200 (1880) ; id. Bull. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 45 (1881) ; Coues, Chech-list N. Amer. 

 B. p. 102 (1882); Nelson, Cruise 11. S.'Corwm; p. 89 (1883); 

 Stearns, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. p. 119 (1883: Old Fort Isl., 

 Labrador 1 ); Baird, Brewer, #■ Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. 

 p. 200 (1884); Agersb. Auk, ii. p. 286 (1885: S.E. Dakota); 

 Turner, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. viii. p. 247 (1885 : Rupert House, 

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

 Seton, Auk, iii. p. 152 (1886: Manitoba); Butcher, t.c. p. 437 

 (Long Isl.); Ridgw. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 104 (1887); Nelson, 

 Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, p. 117 (1887); Cory, Auk, iv. p. 316 

 (1887: Cuba); Scl. $ Muds. Argent. Orn. ii. p. 191 (1889); 

 CantweU, Auk, vi. p. 340 (1889 : Minnesota) ; FeUden, Ibis, 1889, 

 p. 495 (Barbados) ; Clarke, Auk, vii. p. 321 (1890 : Hudson's 

 Bay); Thomps. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 502 (1890: Mani- 

 toba, rare migrant) ; MacFarl. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 428 

 (1891 : Lower Anderson R.) ; Baqq, Auk, xi. p. 163 (1S94 : Oneida 

 Co., New York); Trowbridge, Ibis, 1894, p. 449; Chapm. Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. vi. p. 77 (1894 : Trinidad). 



Totanus hudsoniea, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 163 (1885). 



Adult male in breeding-plumage. General colour above black, 

 mottled with white edges and rufous markings to the feathers, the 

 rufous taking the form of spots and notches : lower back black, with 

 obsolete white fringes to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts black, the 

 lateral ones with white bars ; tail black, narrowly tipped with 

 white, and showing a good deal of white at the base of the outer 

 web ; wing-coverts brown, with much less rufous than the back, 

 the greater series edged with white at the ends, the inner greater 

 coverts notched with rufous like the inner secondaries ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts black, with a large spot of white at the 

 ends of the inner primary-coverts; quills blackish, t lie primaries 

 with white shafts ; head ashy brown, slightly washed with rufous, 

 the feathers mesially centred with blackish brown ; a tolerably 

 distinct whitish eyebrow, lined with dusky brown streaks; lores 

 dusky ; below the eye a white spot ; sides of face and sides of neck 

 and chin whitish, with a slight rufesceut tinge, streaked with 

 minute spots of dusky brown ; lower throat and under surface of 

 body deep chestnut, streaked on the throat and fore-neck and barred 

 on the rest of the under surface with dusky blackish: under tail- 

 coverts broadly barred with rufous and black and tipped with 

 white ; axillarics and under wing-coverts slaty blackish, the outer 

 coverts with broad white edgings ; quills dusky below, with a little 

 white at the base of the inner web : "bill greyish yellow, dark 

 brown along the ridge of the upper mandible, and blackjah towards 

 the tips of both ; feet light greyish blue ; iris brown " (J. J. 



