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251. Lhnosa hcemastica (Linn.). Hudsonian Godwit; 

 Doe Bird; Ring-tailed Marlin. 



Plumage of summer adults : back blackish with buffy markings ; head and 

 neck chestnut, streaked with dusky ; lower parts dark chestnut with dusky 

 bars ; rump, upper tail coverts and axillars dusky, with a band of white cros- 

 sing the upper tail coverts ; tail not barred, black with white tip and base. 

 Plumage of winter adults: above brownish gray; head, neck and under 

 parts whitish, shaded on breast with brownish gray. Immature plumage : 

 back brownish gray with subterminal dusky and terminal buffy edgings; 

 below grayish verging into white on the belly. Wing 8.00 to 8.50 ; culmen 

 3.15 ; tarsus 2.35. 



Geog. Dist— Eastern North America, breeding in the far north ; in winter 

 migrating through South America to Patagonia. 



County Records. — Cumberland; transient in autumn, generally rare, 

 (Brown, C. B. P., p. 28). Sagadahoc; Capt. H. L. Spinney has taken this 

 species at Popham Beach where it is not rare, (Swain, J. M. O. S. 1900, p. 33). 

 Washington; rare, (Boardman). 



Seemingly this species occurs only as a rare fall migrant 

 along the coast. In the Anderson River region it makes a 

 slight nest on the ground and in early June deposits four deep 

 olive brown or hair brown eggs which are spotted with dark 

 brown. They measure 2.20 x 1.42 (Ridgw.). 



Genus TOTANUS Bechstein. 



254. Tetanus melanoleucus (^Gmel.^. Greater Yellow-legs; 

 Greater Telltale; Greater Tattler; Stone Snipe; Long-legged 

 Tattler. 



Plumage of summer adults : above blackish with light streaks on head and 

 neck and light spots and bars on the back ; upper tail coverts and tail white, 

 barred with black ; below whitish with spots of black on breast and bars of 

 same on flanks. Plvunage of winter adults: above brownish gray with 

 whitish edgings to back feathers ; scapulars and wing coverts spotted darkish 

 and whitish ; breast and sides only slightly marked with blackish. Immature 

 plumage : more brownish above with a more buff tinge to the lighter colored 

 markings above. Wing 7.50 to 7.80 ; culmen 2.25 ; tarsus 2.55. 



Geog. Dist. — North America ; breeding from Iowa, Minnesota, Anticosti 

 and rarely northern Illinois, northward, chiefly breeding in the far north ; 

 winters from the Gulf States to Chili and Patagonia. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; fairly common migrant, (Johnson). 

 Aroostook ; I have every reason to believe it breeds along the Woolastook, 



