258 SCOLOPACID®, SNIPE, ETC.—GEN. 214-216. 
White-tailed Godwit. Tail, its upper coverts and rump, white, barred 
throughout with black ; head, neck and under parts rusty-red in the breeding 
season, in winter whitish; above, grayish-brown, the feathers with darker 
centres, and blackish s haft lines ; sides and crissum with sagittate black marks. 
About the size of the last. A widely distributed Old World species, and a 
very near relative of Z. rufa of Europe, lately discovered in Alaska (Dail). 
Bp., Trans-sChicago Acad.i, 320, pl. 32... 2 3 3) . URORYGLALIE: 
Hudsonian or Black-tailed Godwit. Ling-tailed Marlin. Tail black, 
largely white at the base, its coverts mostly white ; rump blackish; lining of 
wings extensively blackish; under parts in the breeding season intense 
rufous, variegated (chiefly barred) with dusky ; head, neck and upper parts 
brownish-black, variegated with gray, reddish, and usually with some 
whitish speckling; quills blackish, more or less white at the base. Young 
and apparently winter specimens much paler, tawny whitish below, more 
gray above. Considerably smaller than either of the foregoing; about 15; 
wing 8 or less; bill 34 or less; tarsus 24 or Jess. North America, rather 
northerly, apparently not common in the United States; a near relative of 
LL. egocephala of Europe. Nurv., ii, 175; Aup., v, 335, pl. 349; Cass. 
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214-16. Genus TOTANUS Bechstein. 
* Toes with 2 subequal webs; legs bluish or dark. (Symphemia.) 
Willet. Semipalmated Tattler. Bill straight, comparatively 
stout, grooved little if any more than half its length; toes 
<A with two conspicuous basal webs; 12-16; wing 7-8; tail 
THT a Ee e: 24-3; bill or tarsus 2-23; tibiee bare 1 or more; middle toe 
toes of Willet. and claw 14-2. In summer, gray above, with numerous 
black marks, white below, the jugulum streaked, the breast, sides and 
crissum barred or with arrow-shaped marks of dusky (in winter, and in 
young birds all these dark marks few or wanting, except on jugulum) ; upper 
tail coverts, most of the secondaries, and basal half of primaries, white ; 
ends of primaries, their coverts, lining of wings, and axillars, black; bill 
bluish or dark. Temperate N. Am., abundant; resident in the U. §., con- 
spicuous in the marshes of the Atlantic coast. Wuts., vii, 27, pl. 56, f. 3; 
Nurtt., ii, 144; Aup., v, 324, pl. 347; Cass. in Bp., 729. SEMIPALMATA. 
** Toes with inner web very small; legs yellow or green. (Glottis.) 
Greater Tell-tale. Greater Yellow-shanks. Stone-snipe. Tattler. Bill 
straight or slightly bent upward, very slender, grooved half its length or 
less, black; legs long and slender, yellow. In summer, ashy-brown above 
varied with black and speckled with whitish, below white, jugulum streaked, 
and breast, sides and crissum speckled or barred, with blackish, these latter 
marks fewer or wanting in winter and in the young; upper tail coverts white 
with dark bars; tail feathers marbled or barred with ashy or white; quills 
blackish. Large; length over 12; wing over 7; tail 3 or more; bill 2 or_, 
more; tarsus about 24; middle toe and claw 14; tibiz bare 15. N. Am., 
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