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LIMOSA HAEMASTICA (Coues). 



THE HUDSONIAN GODWIT. 



Specific Character. — Smaller than L. fedoa, above blackish brown, irregularly 

 spotted and barred with pale ochraceous, the rump plain brownish black ; upper 

 tail coverts immaculate white ; wing coverts and shorter quills plain dark brown- 

 ish gray ; primaries brownish black, their shafts white. Lower parts chestnut 

 rufous narrowly barred with brownish black, the feathers of the belly, etc., often 

 tipped with white. Tail black with the base and tip (narrowly) white. Lining 

 of wings and axillaries plain smoky black. 



Habitat — Eastern North America and the whole of Central and South 

 America. Breeds only in high latitudes. This bird is not common now being 

 more seldom seen than the Marbled Godwit. It is, however, taken at the St. 

 Clair Flats occasionally, and on the Grand River near Dunnville, where several 

 good specimens of the Marbled Godwit have also been taken in the autumn. 



