156 BRITISH BIRDS. 



TOTANUS RUFUS. 



BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 



(PLATB 29.) 



Limosa grisea major, Briss. Orn. v. p. 272 (1760, winter plumage). 



Limosa rufa, Briss. Orn. v. p. 281 (1760, summer plumage) ; Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. 

 fyc. Brit. Mus. p. 32 (1810) ; et auctorum plurimorum Naumann, Temminck, 

 Selby, Yarrell, Bonaparte, Lichtenstein, Fleming, Jenyns, Meyer, Nilsson, Degland 

 8f Gerbe, Middendorff, Swinhoe, Wolley, Blakiston, Wright, Hume, Russow, Alston 

 8f Harvie-Brown, Brandt, Schalow, Reichenow, Cabanis, Homeyer, &c. 



Limosa rufa major, Briss. Orn. v. p. 284 (1760, winter plumage, ex Linn, et Wil- 

 lughby). 



Scolopax lapponica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 246 (1766, summer plumage). 



Scolopax segocephala, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 246 (1766, winter plumage, ex Willughby}. 



Scolopax leucophsea, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 719 (1790). 



Totanus aegocephalus (Linn ), ) ^^ Qm ^^ .._ 289 



Totanus leucopnaeus (Lath.}, \ 



Totanus ferruginous, Meyer, Taschenb. ii. p. 374 (1810). 



Limosa meyeri, Leisler, Nachtr. Bechst. Naturg. ii. p. 172 (1813). 



Limicula meyeri (Leisl), 1 y^ ^ ^ ffH ^ ^ .^ ^ 26Q (lgl6)< 



Limicula lapponica (Linn.), \ 



Limosa jadreca, j 



Limosa noveboracensis, > Leach, Syst. Cat. Mamm. Sfc. Brit. Mus. p. 32 (1816). 



Limosa segocephala (Linn.), ) 



Fedoa meyeri (Leisl.), \ 



Fedoa rufa (Briss.), i Steph. Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii. pt. i. pp. 75, 77, 79 (1824). 



Fedoa pectoralis, 1 



Limosa ferruginea (Meyer), Pall Zoogr. Rosso- Asiat. ii. p. 180 (1826). 



The Bar-tailed Godwit has never been known to breed in any part of the 

 British Islands, although it has been suspected to do so on some of the 

 wild and lonely Hebrides. It is principally known as a visitor on migration, 

 appearing in spring and autumn, most numerous at the former season on 

 the low-lying coasts south of Spurn Point. It visits in more or less 

 abundance all the coasts of the British Islands, being most frequent on 

 those that are low and sandy, and commoner in the east than in the west 

 of Great Britain. It visits the Orkneys and Shetlands on migration, as 

 well as the Channel Islands. A few stragglers occasionally remain during 

 winter; and it sometimes wanders out of its usual course when on migra- 

 tion, and visits the inland counties. In the same manner a few often 

 remain on our coasts all summer, probably non-breeding birds. In Ireland 

 it is said to be more abundant than in Scotland. 



The Bar-tailed Godwit is entirely confined, during the breeding-season, 

 to the Siberian tundras above the limit of forest- growth from Lapland in 

 the west across Behring's Straits into Alaska in the east. It has not been 



