392 CHARADRIID.E. 



Soc. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 241 (1872 : Southern Iowa) ; Coues, Key N. 

 Amer. B. p. 257 (1872) ; Snoiv, B. Kansas, p. 10 (1873) ; Scl. $ 

 Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 146 (1873) ; Ridgw. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 

 x. p. 384 (1874: Illinois); Coues, B. N.-West, p. 492 (1874); 

 Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. ii. p. 308 (1874 : Mazatlan) ; 

 Hensk. Hep. Zool. Expl. 100th Merid. p. 457 (1875) ; Gundl. 

 J. f. O. 1875, p. 320 ; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 47 

 (1876: Tehuantepec) ; Scl. $ Salv. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 141 (Santa 

 Rosa, Ecuador) ; Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Nat. vii. p. 368 (1878: 

 Porto Rico) ; Coues, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 641 (1878 ; 

 Pembina) ; Merrill, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mm. i. p. 162 (1878 : Fort 

 Brown, Texas) ; Maynard, B. East. N Amer. p. 396 (1879) ; 

 Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 200 (1880); Baird, Brewer, $ 

 Ridgw. Water-Birds N. Amer. i. p. 255 (1884) ; Drew, Auk, ii. 

 p. 18 (1885 : Colorado) ; Agersb. t. c. p. 286 (S.E, Dakota) ; A. O. 

 U. Check-l. N Amer. B. p. 153 (1886) ; Everm. Auk, iii. p. 91 

 (1886 : Ventura Co., Calif.) ; Seton, t. c. p. 152 (Manitoba) ; Scott, 

 t. c. p. 386 (San Pedro River, Arizona) ; Butcher, t. c. p. 436 

 (Long Isl.) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 379 (1886) ; Wells, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 628 (1887 : Grenada) ; Cory, Auk,iv. p. 316 

 (1887 : West Indies) ; Toions. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. pp. 163, 

 198, 235 (1887 : Northern California) ; Ridgw. Man. N Amer. B. 

 p. 163 (1887) ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 388 (1888) ; 

 Beckham, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xi. pp. 642, 652 (1888: S.W. 

 Texas) ; Everm. Auk, v. p. 349 (1888 : Carroll Co., Indiana) ; 

 Scott, Auk, vi. p. 157 (1889: Gulf Coast of Florida) ; Salvin, Ibis, 

 1889, p. 379 (Cozumel Isl.) ; Cory, B. West Indies, p. 237 (1889 : 

 Greater Antilles) ; Thomps. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiii. p. 501 

 (1890: Manitoba); Cory, Cat. B. West Indies, p. 93 (1892 

 Greater and Lesser Antilles); Scott, Auk, ix. p. 212 (1892 

 Caloosabatchie Region, Florida) ; Allen, Auk, x. p. 125 (1893) 

 Fisher, N. Amer. Faun. no. 7, p. 23 (1893 : Morro Bay, Cal.) 

 Chapm. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. vi. p. 77 (1894). 



Fedoa americana, Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. p. 71 (1824). 



Great Marbled Godwit, Nuttall. Man. Orn. ii. p. 173 (1834). 



Limosa adspersa, Naum. Vbg. Deutschl. viii. p. 429 (1836), ex 

 Licht. ; Reichenb. Grail, tab. lxxvi. fig. 573 (1850). 



Limosa foeda, Belding, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 527 (1881 : San 

 Quinton Bay, Lower California) ; Coues, Check-list N. Amer. B. 

 p. 102 (1882) ; id. Key N Amer. B. 2nd ed. p. 635 (18S4). 



Totanus fedoa, Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 158 (1885). 



Adult female in breeding-plumage. General colour above blackish, 

 mottled all over with pale cinnamon-buff, the feathers spotted or 

 barred with this colour ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, the 

 median and greater coverts pale cinnamon with whitish edges, 

 centred longitudinally with dark brown and mottled with dusky 

 spots or bars, the inner greater coverts notched and barred with 

 cinnamon-buff like the inner secondaries : bastard-wing and primary- 

 coverts blackish ; quills for the most part cinnamon-rufous, slightly 

 mottled or marbled with dusky brown, the outer webs nearly uniform 

 dark brown, the first primary with a white shaft, the remainder 

 with whity-brown shafts ; secondaries pale cinnamon with slight 

 dusky mottlings, the innermost secondaries like the back ; entire 

 back ashy brown, barred with dusky brown ; upper tail-coverts pale 

 cinnamon-buff, with dusky brown bars somewhat concentric in 



