Specimen Page from Nuttall's Ornithology — Game and Water Birds. 



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MARBLED GODWIT. 



MARLIN. 

 LiMOSA FEDOA. 



Char. Prevailing color dull rufous varied with black; rump and tail 

 barred; bill pinkish ; legs and feet black. Length 17 to 20 inches. 



A^est. Near a stream or lake, — a slight depression sparingly lined with 

 grass. 



Egs^s. 3-4; pale buff or olive, marked with brown and lavender; 

 2.25 X 1.60. 



The Marbled Godwit is only a transient visitor along the sea- 

 coasts of the United States in the spring and fall on its way to 

 and from its breeding-place in the North. According to Rich- 

 ardson, it abounds in the summer season in the interior of the 

 fur countries, being particularly plentiful on the Saskatchewan 

 plains, where it frequents marshes and bogs, walking on the 

 surface of the swamp-moss (^Sphagna) , and thrusting down its 

 bill to the nostrils in quest of worms and leeches, which it dis- 

 covers by the sensitive point of its bill, thus finding means to 



