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chestnut on crown, mantle and scapulars ; wing-coverts greyish- 
brown with darker centres and whitish margins; wings dark 
brown, the secondaries margined with white ; 7wmp white, some 
of feathers marked with brown; tail-feathers and axz/laries 
white, barred with brown; sides of head, back of neck and 
under parts rich ferruginous, marked about the flanks with 
brown; bill brown, paler at the base; legs and feet black, 
irides brown. Length 15°5 inches; culmen 3; wing 8; tail 
2°75; tarsus 2. 
Adult Female (Summer): The chestnut both above and 
beneath is decidedly paler. Larger than the male. 
Adults (Winter): Feathers above greyish-brown with pale 
edges and dark shaft-lines ; tail-feathers plain ashy-grey, slightly 
marbled at the base; wing and upper tail-coverts and rump 
much as in summer; throat and chest greyish-white, streaked 
with brown ; abdomen almost white ; bill tipped with black. 
Young in first plumage: Resemble adults in winter, but 
are browner above, where some feathers are tinged with chest- 
nut, especially about the scapulars ; tail barred as in summer ; 
beneath more suffused with buff. 
Distribution: Breeds in North-eastern Europe, ranging 
southward in autumn to the Gambia and Somali Land. In 
Asia it occurs as far south as India during the cold season. 
Habitat: Found on the sea-coast or on inland marshes ; 
gregarious. 
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 
Limosa zgocephala (ZLzmz.). 
Adult Male (Summer): Crown black, the feathers mar- 
gined with bright chestnut ; eye-stripe whitish; lores brown ; 
throat and neck bright chestnut, shading into white on the 
chin, here and there obscurely speckled with brown; mantle 
and scapulars dark brown, barred or spotted with chestnut ; 
wings dark brown, crossed by a conspicuous white bar ; wing- 
coverts chiefly ashy-grey, some tipped with white; dower back 
and rump black; upper tail-coverts and Jdases of rectrices 
white ; tatl otherwise blackish, tipped with white ; breast and 
flank-feathers chestnut, barred with brown and tipped with 
white ; centre of abdomen, lower tail-coverts and axillaries 
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