168 BAY-BIRDS. 
feathers barred with brown; scapulars and fore part 
of the back brown, the feathers barred and spotted 
with black and white ; primaries blackish-brown, the 
shaft of the outer brownish-white, whiter towards the 
tip, the rest dark-brown ; secondaries margined with 
white; hind part of the back brownish-grey; tail 
barred with greyish-brown, white at the tip; legs, 
feet, and toes, yellow; claws black. Length, ten 
inches and three-quarters ; wing, six. Young with 
the legs greenish—and by those who have not recog- 
nised it as the young of the year, I have heard the 
propriety of its name questioned.”— Giraud. 
GopwiIrt. 
Genus Limosa. 
Generic Distinctions.—Bill very long, alittle re- 
curved from the middle, rather slender, and with the 
lower mandible the shorter. Wings long and very 
acute ; tail short and even; legs long; toes four, and 
rather slender, the hind one being small and the 
middle toe the longest ; anterior toes connected at 
the base by webs, the outer web being much the 
larger. 
Marin. 
Great Marbled Godwit. 
Limosa Fedoa, Linn. 
Scolopax Fedoa, Wils. 
This is the gentlest and most abundant of the 
