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brownish. Adult: With dusky bars on the breast, sides and flanks. The 

 young with immaculate under parts ; legs dusky ; bill dull flesh color, dusky 

 toward the tip. 



Length 16-22 inches; extent 30-40; wing 8.5-9; tail 3-4; tarsus 2.75-3; 

 middle toe 1.4; bill 3.5-5.5. Female decidedly the larger. 



The Marbled godwit, or Brown marlin, breeds from Nebraska to Sas- 

 katchewan, winters in the West Indies and Central America, and was 

 formerly a regular spring and fall migrant on the shores of Long Island, 

 but was not an abundant species even in the days of Giraud and Pike. It 

 is now a rare visitant or straggler. The following are the onlv records for 

 the past 30 years which have come to my notice: 



Syracuse, N. Y. June 1876. (Howlett). Birds Cen. N. Y. 32 



Shinnecock bay, L. I. Aug. 12, 18S1; Sept. 1-8, 1883, (3); Aug. 25, 1885; Aug. 31, 



1885. (3); Sept. 15, 1885. Butcher, Auk, 3: 437 

 Atlanticville, L. I. Aug. 23, 1887 ; Aug. 27, 1887, (pr.) ; July 28, 1888. (W. M. Lawrence). 



Butcher, Long Island Notes 

 Shinnecock, L. L Aug. 31, 1887. (Perkins). Butcher, Long Island Notes 

 Good Ground, L. I. Aug. 18, 1888. (Hendrickson). Braislin, Birds of Long Island, 



1907. p. 61 

 Orleans CO., K. Y. Oct. 1888. (W. F. Palmer). Bavid Bruce, Notes 

 Albany, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1890. A. F. Parks 

 Niagara river, N. Y. Oct. 1891. James Savage, Notes 



Limosa haemastica (Linnaeus) 

 Hudsonian Godwit 



Plate 37 



Scolopax haemastica Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:147 

 Limosa hudsonica BeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. ])t 2, p. 253, fig. 230 

 Limosa haemastica A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. ^o- 251 



hccmas'tica, Gr. di/iuirriKos, bloody-red 



Description. Much smaller than the Marbled godwit, but similar in 

 shape. Upper tail coverts white, the lateral ones tipped with black ; tail 

 black except the base and narrow tip ivhich are white; primaries blackish with 

 white shafts and bases; axillars black. Summer: Head, neck and upper 

 parts varied with blackish and pale chestnut and buffy; under parts deep 

 chestnut barred with dusky and often tipped with whitish. Winter: Upper 

 parts plain brownish gray; head, neck, and under parts dingj^ white or 



