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ccncral, breeding from Iowa. Dakota, etc., north to Alaska, 

 migrating south in winter to Guatemala, Yucatan, and Cuba. 

 249. L. fedoa (Linn.). Marbled Godwit. 

 ('. U]ii)er tail-coverts white, spotted with dusky ; axiliars and under wing- 

 coverts white, marked irregularly with dusky. 

 (IK Rump white, marked with broad, acuminate streaks of dusky ; 

 head, neck, and lower parts very deep cinnamon in summer 

 adult; length about 17.00, wing 8.25-8.50, culmen 2.95-8.80, 

 tarsus 2.00-2.15, middle toe 1.10-1.20. Ilab. Northern portion 

 of eastern hemisphere. 



L. lapponica (Ltnn.). Bar-tailed Godwit.' 

 cP. Rump dusky, the feathers margined with white ; head, neck, and 

 lower parts paler cinnamon in summer adult. Summer adult : 

 Head, neck, and lower parts, plain cinnamon-color; back and 

 scapulars irregularly varied with blackish, whitish, and light 

 rusty; wing coverts light grayish, with dusky shaft-streaks 

 and whitish margins. Winter plumage : Head, neck, and lower 

 parts whitish, the head and neck streaked, the breast and sides 

 scantily and irregularly barred, with graj-ish brown ; back and 

 scapulars plain brownish gray ; otherwise, as in summer. Young : 

 Above, including wing-coverts, light butfy grayish, or dull clay- 

 color, irregularly varied with dusky ; lower parts dull buffy 

 whitish, shaded across chest with deeper grayish buff. Length 

 14.60-lG.OO, wing 8.25-9.15, culmen 3.15-^.7"o, tarsus 2.00-2^45, 

 middle toe 1.10-1.33. £ggs 2.25 X 1-45, similar in color to 

 those of L. fedoa. Hab. Coasts of eastern Asia and across to 

 Alaska, migrating south in winter to New Zealand and Austra- 

 lia; Lower California (casual, in winter). 



250. L. lapponica baueri (N.\um.). Pacific Godwit. 

 v. Tail not distinctly barred, but uniform black, with white base and tip. 



Upper tail-coverts crossed by a broad band of pure white ; longer 

 upper tail-coverts, rump, and axiliars plain sooty blackish, or dusky ; 

 under wing-coverts cliiefl3- dusky. Summer plumage : Head and 

 neck pale chestnut, streaked with dusky ; lower parts deeper chest- 

 nut, barred with dusky ; back, etc., blackish, irregularly varied with 

 buff}-. Winter plumage : Back, etc., plain dull brownish gray ; head, 

 neck, and lower parts dull whitish, or pale grayish buff^-, shaded 

 with brownish gray anteriorlj^. Young : Back, etc., dull brownish 

 graj-, each feather marked with a submarginal dusky crescent and 

 margined terminally with buffy; beneath pale dull gra_yish buffy, 

 the belly whitish and chest more grayish. Length 14.00-16.75, 

 wing 8.10-8.60. culmen 2.85-3.45, tai-sus 2.25-2.50, middle toe 1.15- 

 1.30. Eggs 2.20 X 1-12, ovate, deep olive, hair-brown, or broccoli- 



Srotopax Inpponicn Lixx., S. N. cd. 10, i. 17J8, 147. Limota lapponica GnAV, Gen. B. iii. 1S19, 570. 



