120 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
103. LIMOSA BAUERI Naumann. 
pacte GODWIT. 
Limosa baueri NAUMANN, V6g. Deutsch]. (1834), 8, 429. 
Limosa nove-zealandie GRAay, Gen. Birds (1847), 3, 570; SHARPE, Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 377; Hand-List (1899), 1, 159; Mc- 
GREGOR and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 25. 
Bantayan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor) ; Cuyo (McGregor) ; Luzon 
(Celestino); Negros (Steere Exp.); Samar (Whitehead). Alaska and eastern 
Siberia; south in winter to Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. 
“Adult male in breeding plumage.—Above blackish mottled with pale 
chestnut-red ; wing-coverts dark brown, with white edgings; many of the 
coverts tinged with chestnut, especially inner greater coyerts; alula, pri- 
mary-coverts, and quills blackish; secondaries brown, edged with white, 
a longitudinal, subterminal mark of white along inner web; innermost 
secondaries like the back; feathers of lower back and rump blackish with 
white edges; upper tail-coverts barred with black and white or chestnut 
and black; tail brown, tipped and barred with white, the bars sometimes 
tinged with chestnut; crown-feathers chestnut, streaked with blackish 
brown centers, narrower on hind neck; broad eyebrow chestnut; lores and 
sides of face chestnut with numerous blackish spots on lores; a whitish 
spot under eye; lower parts chestnut with blackish streaks on sides of 
upper breast; under wing-coverts white with indistinct, dusky brown 
spots; axillars white barred with dusky brown. ‘Bill clear reddish for its 
basal half, blackish toward the terminal part, the base of the lower 
mandible paler; feet blackish brown; iris brown.’ (Taczanowski.) 
Length, 395; wing, 220; tail, 77; culmen, 86; tarsus, 52; middle toe with 
claw, 36. 
“Adult female in breeding plumage.—Similar to the male, but not so 
entirely cinnamon-rufous below, and with remains of brown bars on the 
under surface, especially on the flanks. Length, 406; culmen, 109; wing, 
240; tail, 82; tarsus, 58, 
“Young.—The young birds may be told from the adults in winter 
plumage by their more tawny color, and by the ashy gray shade on‘ the 
throat and chest, as well as by the fulvescent bars and notches to the 
feathers of the upper surface.” (Sharpe.) 
Winter plumage.—Above ashy brown with rusty shaft-lines; back, 
rump, and upper tail-coverts white with more or less hidden black arrow 
marks of dark brown, these taking the form of bars on longest coyerts; 
below nearly pure white; slightly dusky on breast and with a few narrow 
shaft-lines on breast ; under tail-coverts with broken, dusky bars ; primaries 
blackish brown; wing-coverts and secondaries with broken, dusky bars; 
primaries blackish brown; coverts and secondaries gray with blackish 
shaft-lines and hoary edges. 
Birds taken in the Philippines in the spring are in the white and gray 
