120 MAXrAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



103. LIMOSA BAUERI Xaiiniann. 

 PACIFIC GODWIT. 



Limosa baueri Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. (1834), 8, i29. 



Limosa novce-zealandicB Gray, Gen. Birds (1847), 3, 570; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 377; Hand-List (1899), 1, 159: Mc- 

 Gregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 25. 



Bantayan {McGregor) ; Boliol {Everett, McGregor) ; Cuyo {McGregor) ; Luzon 

 {Celestitw) ; Negros {Steere Exp.); Samar {Whitehead). Alaska and eastern 

 Siberia; south in winter to Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. 



"Adult male in breeding plumage. — Above blackish mottled with pale 

 chestnut-red; wing-coverts dark brown, with white edgings; many of the 

 coverts tinged with chestnut, especially inner greater coverts; alula, pri- 

 mary-coverts, and quills blackish; secondaries brown, edged with white, 

 a longitudinal, subterminal mark of white along inner wel) ; innermost 

 secondaries like the back; feathers of lower back and rump ])lackish with 

 white edges; upper tail-coverts barred with black and white or chestnut 

 and black; tail brown, tipped and barred with white, the bars sometimes 

 tinged with chestnut; crown-feathers chestnut, streaked with blackish 

 brown centers, narrower on hind neck ; broad eyebrow chestnut ; lores and 

 sides of face chestnut with numerous blackish spots on lores; a whitish 

 spot under eye; lower parts chestnut with blackish streaks on sides of 

 upper breast; under wing-coverts white with indistinct, dusky brown 

 spots; axillars white barred with dusky brown. 'Bill clear i-eddish for its 

 basal half, blackish toward the terminal part, tlie base of the lower 

 mandible paler; feet blackish brown; iris brown.' (TaczanowsJci.) 

 Length, 395: wing, 220; tail, 77 ; culmen, 86 : tarsus, 5"? ; middle toe with 

 claw, 36. 



"Adult female in breeding plumage. — Similar to the male, but not so 

 entirely cinnamon-rufous below, and witli remains of brown bars on the 

 under surface, especially on the flanks. Length, 406 ; culmen, 109 ; wing, 

 240; tail, 83; tarsus, 58. 



"Young. — The young birds may be told from the adults in winter 

 plumage by their more tawTiy color, and by the ashy gray shade on the 

 throat and chest, as well as by the fulvescent bars and notches to the 

 feathers of the upper surface." (Sharpe.) 



Winter plumage. — Above asby brown witli rusty shaft-lines; back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts white with more or less hidden black arrow 

 marks of dark brown, these taking the form of bars on longest coverts; 

 below nearly pure white; slightly dusky on breast and with a few narrow 

 shaft-lines on breast ; under tail-coverts with broken, dusky bars ; primaries 

 blackish brown; wing-coverts and secondaries with broken, dusky bars; 

 primaries blackish brown; coverts and secondaries gray with blackish 

 shaft-lines and hoary edges. 



Birds taken in the Philippines in the spring are in the white and gray 



