BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 



SCOLOPACID^.] 



LIMOSA LAPPONICA (Linn^us). 



Explanation of Plate. 



Figure 1. Sardio, Finland, 1863, taken by Wolley's collector. In collection of 



E. Bidwell, Esq. 

 „ 2, Muoniovaara, Lapland, June 23, 1864, taken by Wolley's collector, received 



from Prof. Newton. In collection of H. E. Dresser, Esq. 

 „ 3. Kittila, Lapland, June 1879; W. Meves coll. In collection of H. E. 



Dresser, Esq. 



" '^ I Kausaselanvucma, Kittila, Lapland, June 8, 1891. In collection of 

 " g^ J H. Massey, Esq. 



This species is a regular spring and autumn migrant to the British Islands, 

 numbers remaining throughout the winter. 



Respecting the geographical distribution and nesting-habits of this species, 

 Mr. Howard Saunders writes as follows f : — " The Bar-tailed Godwit is only a 

 migrant along the greater part of the coast of Norway: its breeding-range 

 commencing in Finmark, where Canon Tristram states that he obtained eggs. In 

 Lapland the late Mr. Wolley and others procured authentic eggs ; and it probably 

 nests throughout Finland and Northern Russia, and Siberia. It is, however, a 

 rare visitant to Archangel, and Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Seebohm only observed 

 it once on the Petchora. On the coasts of the Baltic, Northern Germany, 

 Denmark, and Holland, it is a regular migrant, but in the latter country and in 

 France, it is less abundant than the preceding species \_Limosa helgica]. It visits 

 the Spanish Peninsula, Morocco, and the Canaries, and has been traced down the 

 West African coast as far as the Gambia. It is irregularly distributed in winter 

 along the shores and islands of the Mediterranean, and thence to Northern and 

 North-eastern Africa, the Red Sea and the Somali country. It is also a winter 



* Details respecting the discovery of these eggs are given by Mr. H. W. Marsden in the 

 ' Zoologist,' 1892, p. 30. 



t Tarrell's ' History of British Birds,' 4th edition, vol. iii. edited by H. Saunders, pp. 495, 496. 



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