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dominance of bright bay or chestnut, rendering the wearer a very 
beautiful object. The Black-tailed Godwit, though varying a good 
deal in size, is constantly larger than the Bar-tailed, and especially 
Gopwir. (After Swainson.) 
longer in the legs. The species may be further distinguished by 
the former having the proximal third of the tail-quills pure white, 
and the distal two-thirds black, with a narrow white margin, while 
the latter has the same feathers barred with black and white alter- 
nately for nearly their whole length. 
America possesses two species of the genus, the very large’ 
Marbled Godwit or Marlin, L. fedoa, easily recognized by its size 
and the buff colour of its axillaries, and the smaller Hudsonian 
Godwit, Z. hudsonica, which has its axillaries of a deep black. This 
last, though less numerous than its congener, seems to range over 
the whole of the continent, breeding in the extreme north, while it 
has been obtained also in the Strait of Magellan and the Falkland 
Islands. The first seems not to go further southward than the 
Antilles and the Isthmus of Panama. 
From Asia, or at least its eastern part, two species have been 
described. One of them, L. melanuroides, differs only from L. belgica 
in. its smaller size, and is believed to breed in Amurland, wintering 
in the islands of the Pacific, New Zealand, and Australia. The 
other, L. uropygialis, is closely allied to and often mistaken for L. 
lapponica, from which it chiefly differs by having the rump barred 
like the tail. This was found breeding in the extreme north of 
Siberia by Dr. von Middendorff, and ranges to Australia, whence it 
-was first described by Mr. Gould. 
GOLDCREST, a commonly used abbreviation of Golden-crested 
(also called Golden-crowned) Wren, the Motacilla regulus of Linnzeus, 
and Regulus cristatus of most modern ornithologists. This species 
is the type of a small genus! generally placed among the Sylviidx 
or true WARBLERS, but by certain writers it is referred to the 
Paridx (Tirmouss). That the Reguli possess many of the habits 
and actions of the latter is undeniable, but on the other hand they 
are not known to differ in any important points of organization or 
appearance from the former—the chief distinction being that the 
1 The name Kinglet, a literal rendering of Regulus, has been applied to the 
birds of this group in many books, but cannot be said to have become in this 
sense an English word. 
