Birds of Indiana. 717 



later, on August 14, at the same place, this species was scarce (Wood- 

 ruff). 



Mr. Parker reports them from same section August 24, 1896, when 

 he found them common, and collected both adults, in rich breeding 

 plumage, and young. In 1886 he noted it in Cook County, Illinois, 

 August 28. He thinks they are not so common in late years. Mr. 

 H. K. Coale found them common on September 11, 1881. He saw 

 them on the shore of Lake Michigan, in Lake County, Indiana. He 

 saw them there again September 2, 1883, and had seen them Septem- 

 ber 25, 1875. He informed me they were very abundant, and that the 

 feathers were "full of parasite^." This is the latest record I have, but 

 Mr. Nelson has them rec orf^ed from Cook. County, Illinois; as late as 

 October 20. Mr. George h. Toppan has also observed it in Lake Coun- 

 ty, Indiana. Mr. Dury Ihinlvs he had a specimen from English Lake, 

 but has not been able to find it. In Ohio it is common on Lake Erie 

 near Cleveland. Dr. Laniidon notes it on tlie Ohio Eiver near Cincin- 

 nati, where it was also take-n by Dury and Freeman September 15, 

 1878. Dr. Wheaton took it near Columbus in October, 1874(Wheaton, 

 Birds of Ohio, p. 479). 



52. (iKNus LIMOSA Brissos. 



a^. Tail distinctly barred ; win;r over 8.50. L. fedoa (Linn.). 100 



a^. Tail black, white at base and tip; wing under 8.50. 



L. hsemastica (Linn.). 101 



100. (249) Limosa fedoa (Linn.). 



Marbled Godwit. 



Tail, barred throughout with black and rufous; rump and upper 

 tail coverts like the back; no pure white anywhere; general plumage, 

 rufous or cinnamon-brown; below, breast, sides and flanks, barred with 

 du&ky; above, variegated with black and brown or gray; quills, rufous 

 and black; bill, flesh-color, largely tipped with black; feet, dark; large. 

 Immature. — Breast, sides and flanks, immaculate. 



Length, 16.50-20.50; wing, 8.95-9.00; bill, 3.50-5.06; tarsus, 2.75- 

 3.00. 



Range. — North America, from Central America and Cuba north- 

 ward to Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Breeding chiefly in the inte- 

 rior from Iowa and ISTebraska northward. Winters from Gulf coast 

 southward. 



Nest, on prairie, usually near water. Eggs, 3-4; olive-drab to huffy, 

 irregularly blotched and spotted with dark broM^n and purplish gray; 

 2.27 by 1.60. 



