206 BIRDS OF LA PLATA 
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HUDSONIAN GODWIT 
Limosa hemastica 
In summer: Above dark brownish black, mixed on the head with 
longitudinal streaks of whitish, on the neck with pale chestnut, and 
with many of the feathers of the back spotted or edged with pale 
chestnut ; wings and tail blackish, the upper half of the inner webs 
of the primaries and secondaries, the basal part of the outer rectrices, 
and a broad band across the upper tail-coverts pure white; beneath, 
cheeks and throat whitish, becoming pale chestnut on the neck, longi- 
tudinally striped with blackish ; rest of under surface deeper chestnut, 
transversely barred with blackish. Jn winter: Above uniform dull 
brownish; head, neck, and under surface dirty white or pale buff ; 
length 14.3, wing 8.5 inches, 
Tue Hudsonian Godwit, Mr. Seebohm tells us, 
“breeds on the tundras of North America north 
of the forest-growth, from Alaska to Baffin’s Bay, 
but is rare at the western extremity of its range.”” In 
winter it goes far south, like most of the other Gralle. 
Durnford found it ‘‘ common from April to Sep- 
tember about the lagoons and arroyos to the south 
of Buenos Ayres” ; and states that in habits it much 
resembles the Bar-tailed Godwit of Europe (Limosa 
lapponica). He also met with it in Chupat, and obtained 
two specimens there on the 13th of November, 1876. 
I have met with it in flocks during the summer of 
the Southern Hemisphere, and these birds, as well 
as those obtained by Durnford, were undoubtedly 
visitors from the north; but invariably small flocks 
of half a dozen to thirty birds begin to appear on the 
pampas in April, and remain there, as Durnford 
says, until September, when the northern migrants 
are nearly due. These individuals must therefore 
