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Alaska to Hudson Bay and probably to Ungava, but its 

 exact breeding-range in the east is still unknown. In winter 

 it visits the southern United States, Mexico, and the West 

 Indies, ranging through South America to Brazil. It is 

 accidental in Greenland, the Bermudas, and western Europe; 

 also in north-east Siberia and Japan. The birds found in 

 western North America have been separated as a distinct race. 



Genus LIMOSA Brisson, Orn. v. 1760, p. 202. 

 Type : L. limosa (Linn.). 

 Limuga, from llmosus muddy, from llmus = mud. 



Limosa limosa. BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 



Scolopax limosa Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 147 : 

 Sweden. 



Limosa segocephak (Linn,) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 178. 

 Limosa limosa (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds . _3 xxiv. 1896, 



p. 381. 

 Limosa belgica (Q-mel.) ; Sounders, Blanual, 2nd ed. 1899, 



p. 625. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bird of Passage, 

 chiefly in autumn and occasionally in spring and winter, but 

 rare in summer. Formerly it was a regular summer visitor, 

 breeding from south Yorkshire to Norfolk up till 1847. A 

 pair probably attempted to breed in the Orkney Islands in the 

 summers of 1910, 1911, and 1914. As a migrant it is most 

 numerous on the east and south coasts of England, but is 

 rare to the north of the Humber and on the east coast of 

 Scotland ; it is more frequent on the west and has occurred 

 in the Inner and Outer Hebrides and in the Orkney and 

 Shetland Islands. To Ireland it is a frequent visitor, and 

 has occurred in almost every month of the year. 



General Distribution. The Black-tailed Godwit breeds in 

 Iceland, the Faeroes, and northern and central Europe to 



