718 ]\Ki'OKT OP State Geologist. 



Kare luigraiit. In I'onner years it was coinmoii, and possil)ly bred. 

 It is reported as breeding- in Obio, Wisconsin and Iowa (Davie). Mr. 

 Chas. Diiry tells me it was abundant at Cbahners, Ind., in years past. 

 In Carroll County Prof. Evermann found it in April, 1883. This is 

 the only recent record I can find. Though in 1876 Mr. Nelson con- 

 sidered it a rather common migrant, April 1-5 to May 15, and Septem- 

 ber 10 to October 20. 



'J'his bird is much more abundant west of the Mississippi River, 

 where it was found In-eeding abundaaitly in Traverse Lake region, in 

 western Minnesota, by Messrs. Roberts and Beuner (B. N. 0. C. Vol. 

 "\\ 1880, pp. 13, 18). It also breeds in Manitoba. 



101. (2'>1). Limosa haemastica (Linn.). 



Hudsoniau Godwit. 



Adult. — Smaller than last species; above, blackish-brown, irregu- 

 laily spotted and barred with pale ochraceous; rump, blackish; upper 

 tail coverts, white; tail, black, white at base and (narrowly) at tip; 

 primaries, brownish-black, their shafts white; below, chestnut-rufous, 

 barred with black and sometimes tipped with whitish; lining of wings 

 and axillars, black. Adult in Winter and Immature. — Above, plain 

 brownish-gray; below, white; breast, shaded with brownish-gray or 

 buffy. 



Length, 14.00-16.75; wing, 8.10-8.60; enlmen, 2.85-3.45; tarsus, 

 2.25-2.50. 



Range. — Eastern North America and the whole of middle and 

 South America. Breeds only in the high north, notably on the Barren 

 Grounds of the Arctic Ocean. Winters south beyond the United 

 States. 



Nest, a depression in ground, lined with grass. Egr/s. 4; deep olive 

 with light and dark brown spots; 2.20 by 1.42. 



Rare migrant. I know of no recent instance of its capture. In 

 1879 Dr. Brayton said it was not very rjii-e about Lake Michigan. 

 This was substantially as Mr. Nelson found it in 1876. when he noted 

 it as occun-ing from April 15 to May 10, and September to the first 

 of October (Birds of Northeastern Illinois, p. 128). Now I consider it 

 of very rare occuiTence. I failed io get any records from my corre- 

 spondents either in Illinois or Indiana within the last fifteen years. 

 Mr. Ridgway gives it as an abundant migrant. 



It liaB been seen by ^Mr. iNFcIlwraith at St. Clair Flats, and Dr. 

 AVheaton notes it from Ohio. It prefers to migrate along the Atlantic 

 coast. 



