224 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 
Lim6ésa LAPPONICA (Linnzus). 
The Bar-tailed Godwit visits our shores in varying 
numbers on migration. Brockholes says it is some- 
times common in autumn on the Dee Marshes,! and 
Dr. Dobie saw large flocks there in the autumn of 1892, 
when he obtained a number of specimens. Mr. R. 
Newstead states that examples from the Dee Marshes 
are often brought to the Grosvenor Museum; but he 
has not seen any from the Mersey Estuary, where the 
bird seems to be scarcer.’ 
Inland, Dr. Dobie reports the occurrence of two birds 
on the Mersey at Arpley;? and Mr. C. F. Fish tells us 
that on two occasions he has seen Bar-tailed Godwits 
in the water-meadows bordering the river near Sale. 
Exceptionally, this species has been met with in 
winter. In February 1896 we saw a bird which had 
been shot at High Legh early in that month; and Dr. 
Dobie shot one at West Kirby on December 11th, 1886, 
whose late stay, however, may be accounted for by the 
fact that it had been previously wounded in the leg. 
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 
Limosa BELGICA (J. F. Gmelin). 
The Black-tailed Godwit is not included in Brock- 
holes’ Wirral list, and is only known in Cheshire as 
a rare visitor on migration. There is a specimen in 
Captain Congreve’s collection which was shot a few 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 12. * Dobie, op. czt. p. 340. 
