356 CHARADRIIDAL 
Adult winter, male and female.—Breast and abdomen, 
ereyish-white ; front of neck and upper breast, thinly 
streaked with brown; top of head, hind-neck, back, 
scapulars, and wings, ashy-grey, streaked with greyish- 
brown; tail, ash-brown, without any barring ; upper tail- 
coverts, barred with brown and white. 
Immature, male and female.—Top of head, back, 
scapulars, and wings, variegated with brown and _ buff; 
cheeks, neck, and breast, dull greyish-buff, indistinctly 
streaked with brown; abdomen, yellowish-buff without 
streaks; under tail-coverts, whitish; tail, broadly barred 
with buffish-white and dark-brown ; rump and upper tail- 
coverts, white; over the eye is an ill-defined buffish-white 
stripe; the immature plumage bears a general resemblance 
to the adult winter-plumage, but there is more fulvous 
shading in the former. 
BEAK. Brownish; slightly recurved near the tip. 
Frrr. Brownish. 
Ir1DES. Blackish-brown. 
AVERAGE MEASUREMENTS. 
Toran LHNGEH, ..- ie Sonoma 
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Allied Species and Representative Forms.—The Eastern 
Siberian form which ranges to Alaska, and migrates over 
Asia to China and Japan, reaching Australia and New 
Zealand, is larger, with duller chestnut-red markings, and 
browner about the rump (Saunders). 
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. Limosa belgica (J. F. Gmelin). 
Coloured Figures. — Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. iv, pl. 
50; Dresser, ‘Birds of Europe,’ vol. viii, pl. 573 fig. 3, 
574 fig. 1; Lilford, ‘ Coloured Figures,’ vol. v, pl. 59. 
This fine bird is a somewhat scarce visitor to our coasts. 
Formerly it was more abundant and bred in some of the 
