BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 



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HUDSONIAN GODWIT {Limosa hcemastica) . 



Common and local names: Goose-bird; Black-tail; Spotrump; Whiterump; Ring- 

 tailed Mailin. 



Length. — 14 to 16 inches; bill 3.20, slightly up-curved. 



Adult in Spring. — Blackish above, mottled with buff; head and neck 

 rufous, streaked with dusky; rump blackish; upper tail coverts mostly 

 ivhite; tail black, white at base, tipped slightly with white; under parts 

 chestnut, barred with dusky and wliite; bill reddish or flesh color, black 

 toward tip; legs and feet slaty. 



Achilt in Winter. — Upper parts inimarked brownish gray, wliite spot still 

 conspicuous; buffy whitish or dingy white below; breast grayer. 



Young. — Lower parts similar to winter adult; upper parts brownish gray. 



Field Marks. — Much smaller than the Marbled Godwit. The white spot 

 just below the black rump and at the base of the black tail is conspicuous 

 in flight. 



Season. — A very rare spring and irregular but less rare autumn migrant 

 coastwise. 



Range. — North and South America. Breeds from lower Anderson River 

 southeast to central Keewatin; winters in Argentina, Patagonia and 

 Falkland Islands; in migration occurs principally east of the Great 

 Plains, most commonly on Atlantic coast in autumn and in Mississippi 

 valley in spring; casual in Alaska. 



