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with brown ; axillaries and under wing-coverts white barred with dark brown ; 

 bill greenish-yellow, culmen and tip dark brown ; iris hazel ; tarsi and feet yellowish- 

 green. Total length 288 mm. ; culmen 29, wing 165, tail 82, tarsus 47. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but the buff of the head, jugulum, wings, etc., 

 much deeper, the streaks on the fore-neck and jugulum much less distinct, and the 

 back plain black, the feathers bordered with buff. 



Nestling in down. Upper-surface black, rufous, and white ; lores, sides of the 

 face, collar on the hind-neck, and the entire under parts white, with a tinge of pale 

 buff on the abdomen ; lower flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts marked with 

 rufous and black. 



Nest. A rather deep depression in the ground, sparingly lined with fine weed 

 stems, grasses and a few bits of manure, and one or two small feathers. 



Eggs. Clutch, four ; ground-colour light stone, sparingly marked all over, but 

 more at the larger end, with spots of dark chestnut to yellowish-brown, and under- 

 lying ones of lavender ; axis 41.5 to 43 mm., diameter 32 to 32.5. 



Breeding-season . June . 



Distribution and forms. Breeding in North America, migrating southward to 

 South America in winter, and accidental in Europe, and has been recorded from 

 Australia but no specimens are preserved. No subspecies. 



Genus VETOLA. 



Vetola Mathews, Birds Austr., Vol. III., pt. 2, p. 191, May 2nd, 1913. Type (by original 

 designation) : Scolopax lapponica Linne. 



This genus, which has been continually confused with Limosa, is as well 

 characterised as the majority of the Scolopacine genera. It is easily distinguished 

 by its short legs, differing much in the same way as Pseudototanus differs from 

 Glottis. Compared with Limosa the bill is proportionately shorter and more slender 

 and distinctly more upturned ; the groove on the upper mandible becomes obsolete 

 at about three-quarters the length of the culmen owing to the strong vertical com- 

 pression of the upper mandible, the groove on the lower mandible, however, persists 

 as in Limosa. The legs are short, the exposed tibia being less than the length of the 

 middle toe, the metatarsus is less than twice the middle toe and also less than one- 

 third the length of the wing, the scutellation of the front of the metatarsus becomes 

 irregular and broken up into hexagonal scales towards the tibio-tarsal joint, whereas 

 in Limosa the scutellation is quite regular. The middle claw is normal, untoothed 

 and short, being one-fourth, or less, the length of the middle toe. 



101. Vetola lapponica. BARRED-RUMPED GODWIT. 



[Scopolax lapponica Linne, Syst. Nat., 10th eel., p. 147, Jan. 1st, 1758 : Sweden, Europe. 

 Extra-liniital.] 



Gould, Vol. VI., pi. 29 (pt. xxxm.), Dec. 1st, 1848. Mathews, Vol. III., pt. 2, pi. 148, May 

 2nd, 1913. 



Limosa baueri Naumann, Vogel. Deutschl., Vol. VIII., p. 429, (pref. Oct.) 1836: New 

 Holland = Victoria. 



Limosa auslralis " Briss." Bennett, Cat. Spec. Nat. Hist. Austr. Mus., (after July 26th) 1837, 

 p. 48. Nom. nud. 



Limosa brevipes Gray, List Sp. Birds Brit. Mus., pt. in., p. 95, 1844 : New Zealand. Nomen 

 nudum. 



Limosa auslralasiana Gray, ib., p. 96 : Port Essington, Northern Territory. Nomen nudum.. 

 Limosa lapponica var. novcezealandice Gray, Voy. " Erebus and Terror," Birds, p. 13, Oct.. 

 1845 : New Zealand. 



Limosa foxii Peale, Zool. U.S. Expl. Exped., Vol. VIII., p. 23, 1848 (c/. 2nded., p. 314, 1858) : 

 Samoa. 



Limosa uropygialis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1848, p. 38, Nov. 14th : Australia = 

 Victoria. 



DISTRIBUTION. Winter visitor to Australia, breeding in the northern hemisphere. 



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