134 EEPOET OF NEW JEESEY STATE MUSEUM. 



June, also in October and November,, but they are much less numer- 

 ous than the Short-billed [i. e., Hudsonian] Curlews." Krider 1 re- 

 garded them as plentiful in autumn. Mr. Scott 2 met with but three 

 at Long Beach in 1877, an adult in May and two young late in July. 

 His observations, however, ceased September 1st. Dr. W. L. Abbott 

 only obtained two during many trips to Cape May county. These 

 were on September 14th, 1880. 



Dr. Warren 3 states that a few have been taken in Philadelphia and 

 Delaware counties, presumably along the river, but I have nothing 

 definite on this subject, 



251 Limosa haemastica (Linnaeus). 

 Hudsonian Godwit, Eing-tailed Marlin. 



Adults. Length, 14-16. Wing, 8.10-8.60. Black above, head and neck 

 streaked with buff or light chestnut ; rump, base and tip of tail, pure white ; 

 lower parts, darker chestnut, barred with dusky. 



Young in first autumn. Brownish-gray above, head, neck and under parts, 

 very pale gray or whitish ; rump and tail as in adult. 



Most specimens seen from New Jersey are molting from one plumage to the 

 other and are variously mottled. 



Eare and irregular fall migrant. It was first mentioned from New 

 Jersey by J. Doughty, 4 who describes and figures a specimen taken 

 May, 1828, at Cape May, by Titian E. Peale. Another specimen in 

 the Philadelphia Academy was procured by Mr. A. Galbraith in the 

 Philadelphia market in 1855, which had been secured in New Jersey. 

 Turnbull (1869) states that it is rather scarce, arriving late in Sep- 

 tember. 



One was shot by C. D. Wood, 5 September, 1878, on the Schuylkill, 

 below Philadelphia, and another, labeled "Delaware Eiver, Dr. Gam- 

 bel," is in the Philadelphia Academy collection. 



About 1885 Mr. I. N. DeHaven informs me that they occurred at 

 Atlantic City with the Willet in autumn, two or three in each flock. 

 Since then I have seen a specimen obtained at Cape May September, 

 1900, by Mr. Henry Hazlehurst, and two were shot at Anglesea by 

 Mr. H. W. Wenzel August 26th, 1901, one of which is in the collec- 

 tion of the Philadelphia Academy. 



1 Field Notes, p. 67. 



2 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1879. 



3 Birds of Pa., p. 88. 



4 Cabinet of Nat. Hist., II., p. 158. 



5 Trotter, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1879, p. 275. 



