1G4 SNII'KS. SANDPIPERS, ETC. 



upon Crustacea, iiisrcts, worms, larva', etc., moving about in a horizontal 

 position, picking and probing as it goes. Its flight is easy and well 

 sustained, though not very rapid; in alighting, raises the wings over 

 the back as it touches the ground. These birds as a rule are shy, and 

 keep well out of reach. . . ." 



251. Limosa htexnastica. (/./////A IIn>soM.\x GODWIT; Rixo- 

 TAII.KD MAUI.IN. .[!. I pper parts black, tlir head uiul neck streaked ainl 

 thi' back spotted or barred with ochraccous-butl'; primaries Mark or fu.-cous ; 

 upper tail-coverts irhiti. tin- lateral ones tipped or barred witli Mack; tail 

 bl'ifk, with a broad base and a narrow tip of \\ bite ; throat bully, streaked with 

 blockish; under parts chcstmit-rul'ou>, barred with black and sometimes 

 tipped with whitish ; axillars Hack. L., 15'00; \V., s-jr, ; Tar., '_':;'; \'>.. .",-_'i>. 

 '.-Eastern North America: breed.-, in the arctic rci/ions und mi- 

 grates southward, chictly through the interior, as far a* Patagonia. 



Long Island, rare T. V., Au_r. and Sept. 



. three t<> four, deep olive, liair-brown. or broccoli-brown (sometimes 

 paler '. usually more or lc.-s spotted with darker brown, but sometimes nearly 

 uniform, li-.'u x l-.J-j (Ki-L'w. .. 



This bird resembles the preceding in hubits, and like it is rare on 

 the Atlantic coast. 



The BLACK-TAILED GODWIT (55S. Limom litnosa) inhabits the northern 

 parts of tlie Old-World and is of accidental occurrence in Greenland. 



254. Tetanus melanoleucus ( Gmel.). GKEATKK YKLLOW-LEOS. 



A'l. in fniiiiin r. l"ppi-r ]-arts blai'k, the head and neck streaked and the 

 back spitted or barred with white or ashy ; upper tail-covert-* white, more or 

 less barred with black : tail white or ashy, barred with black ; breast heavily 

 spotted with black; sides barred with black; middle of the belly white. 

 \\~lnt-r i>l>tnt'ttt?. Similar, but upper parts brownish ^ray, edjred with whit- 

 ish : sides of the scapulars, tertials. and winjr-covi-rts with blackish and 

 whitish spot*: breast only lightly streaked with blackish, and sides slightly 

 barred. I... 14-"": NV.. ::': Tar.. MO; I 1 ... *20. 



N'orth America: breeds frf>m Minnesota and rarely northern Illi- 

 nois and Anticosti northward; winters from the (iulf States to I'atajronia. 



\Va-hiiiirton. rather common T. V.. Apl. and May ; July _'." to Nov. Long 

 Island, common T. V.. Aj-1. 1*' through May; .Inly i:, tl.rouirh Oct. Sing 

 Sin-, common T. V.. to .Tune 5 ; to Oct. 28. Cambridge, common T. V., Apl. 

 16 to May IS; Sc-pt. and Oct. 



. three to four, brownish huffy, distinctly but very irregularly spotted 

 with rich vandykc- or madder-brown, 1'43 x 1-20 (Ridgw.). 



It nocds only the musical notes of the Yellow-leg to recall memo- 

 ries of many davs pa-sod alonu' the shore and in the marshes. Half 

 reclining in my blind, I sec in fancy the staring decoys, pointing like 

 weathercocks with the wind, and hear the dull booming of surf be- 

 hind the brown sand dunes. 



