328 Synopsis of the Birds 



Hi. La Barge commune, Buff. pi. enl. 874. Limosa mela- 

 nura, Leisl. Temm. Scolopax limosa, and S. cegocephala. L. 



Inhabits both continents : common at Hudson's Bay, and 

 in high northern American latitudes ; a transient visiter du- 

 ring spring and autumn in the middle states : extremely 

 common in the Netherlands. 



266. Limosa fedoa, Vieill.* Bill recurved ; rump uniform 

 with the rest ; tail brownish, banded with black ; middle 

 nail short, entire. 



Summer plumage, black varied with rufous, beneath rusty : 

 winter, cinereous, beneath whitish. 



Great Marbled Godioit, Scolopax fedoa, JVils. Am. Orn. vii. 

 p. 30- pi. 56. Jig. 4. female. 



Inhabits throughout North America ; a transient visiter in 

 spring and autumn in the middle states : not very common. 



55. SCOLOPAX. 



Scolopax, L. Briss^ G?n. Lath. Cuv. 111. Temm. Ranz. 

 Rusticola, Scolopax, Vieill. Scolopax, Gallinago, Macro- 

 ramphus, Steph. 



Bill long, slender, straight, sub-cylindrical, compressed, 

 soft and flexible its whole length, point depressed, dilated, 

 tumid, obtuse, wrinkled after death :f both mandibles furrow- 

 ed to the middle ; upper terminated by an internal knob ; 

 lower shorter, canaliculated, truncated : nostrils in the furrows, 

 basal, marginal, linear, pervious, covered by a membrane: 

 tongue moderate, filiform, acute. Head large, compressed, 



* Limosa rufa, Briss. Bill recurved ; rump white ; tail banded with 

 black, middle nail short, entire. 



Summer dress, black varied with rufous, head and beneath rufous, the 

 former streaked with brown : winter, cinereous, beneath pure white. 



La Barge rousse, Buff. pi. enl. 900. summer dress. 



Inhabits the north of the old continent: common in northern and wes- 

 tern Europe. 



■{• Owing to the desiccation of their exquisite nervous apparatus. 



