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249. Marbled Godwit (Limosa fidoa). L. 18; B. 4; 

 slightly recurved. Tail barred, cinnamon and black; 

 under wing-coverts cinnanun with more or less fine 

 black markings. Ads. Above black and ochraceous; 

 below buffy white finely and uniformly barred with 

 black. Yng. Similar, but with no or with but few 

 bars below. 



Range. North America; breeds In the interior from western Min- 

 nesota, rarely Iowa and Nebraska northward; winters south of United 

 States to Central America and West Indies. 



250. Pacific Godwit (Limosa lapponica bauerf). L. 16. 

 B. 3.7, slightly recurved, tail barred black and white; 



under wing-coverts black and white. Ads. "Head, 

 neck and lower parts, plain cinnamon color." (Ridgw.) 

 Winter. Above black, grayish and rusty, former pre- 

 vailing; below white; throat streaked, elsewhere wjth 

 irregular, black bars. Notes. "A loud ringing kH-weto, 

 repeated." 



Range. "Shores and Islands of the Pacific Ocean, from New Zea- 

 land and Australia to Kamchatka and Alaska. On the American coast 

 recorded south of Alaska only from La Paz, Lower California." (A. 

 O. U.) 



251. Hudsonian Godwit (Limosa bcemastica) . 

 L. 15; B. 3.2, slightly recurved. Under wing-coverts 

 dusky; upper tail-coverts black and white; tail black at 

 end, white at base. Ads. Above black, rusty and 

 grayish, below chestnut-red barred with blackish and 

 faintly tipped with white. Yng. Similar, but below 

 buffy whitish, breast grayer. Winter. Similar below 

 but above brownish gray. 



Range. Eastern North America chiefly interior; breeds in Arctic 

 Reeions; winters south of United States to South America. 



270. Black-bellied Plover (Squatarola squatarola). 

 L. ii. Hind-toe present, small. Ads. Above black 

 and white, no yellowish; below black. Yng. Above 

 grayish brovvn spotted with white and some yellowish; 

 below white. Winter. Similar to preceding but near- 

 ly uniform brownish above. 



Range. Northern Hemisphere; breeds in Arctic Regions, winters in 

 America from Florida to Brazil. 



272. American Golden Plover (Charadrius domini- 

 cus}. L. 10.5; W. 7. No hind-toe; axillars dusky. 

 Ads. Above conspicuously spotted with yellow; be- 

 low black, sides of breast white. Yng. Duller above, 

 below grayish white with dusky marks and yellowish 

 wash. Winter. Similar but no yellow below. Notes. 

 Call, a plaintive too-lee-e; song, a marvelously har- 

 monious succession of notes. (Nelson.) 



Range. Western Hemisphere; breeds in Arctic Regions; winters 

 from Florida to Patagonia, rare on Pacific coast. 



272a. Pacific Golden Plover (C. d.fnlvus}. Simi- 

 lar to No. 272 but wing shorter, 6.5; yellow richer. 



Range. "Breeding from northern Asia to the Pribilof Ishnds 

 and coast of Alaska, south in winter through China and India to 

 Australia and Polynesia." (A. O. U.) 



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