AVES CHARADRIID/E 305 



Hudsonian Godivit, Penn. Arct. Zool. Suppl. p. 68 (1787) ; Lath. Gen. 

 Suppl. I. p. 246 (1787). 



Scolopax hudsonica, Lath. Ind. Orn. II. p. 720 (1790). 



Limosa hudsonica, Darwin, Voy. 'Beagle,' Birds p. 129 (1841 : Island of 

 Chiloe; Falkland Islands); Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 118 (Chili, about 

 the mouths of rivers near the sea) ; Des Murs in Gay's Hist. Chil. 

 Zool. I. p. 420 (1847) ; Hartl. Naum. 1853, p. 222 (Chili) ; Licht. 

 Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol. p. 91 (1854: Chili) ; Gould, P. Z. S. 1859, 

 p. 96 (Falkland Is.) Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 387 : Abbott, Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 156 (Falkland Is., May) ; Schl. Mus. Pays Bas, V. Scolopaces, p. 

 22 (1864: Falkland Is.); Pelz. Reise Novara, Vog. p. 128 (1865: 

 Chiloe) ; Phil. & Landb. Cat. Av. Chil. p. 35 (1868 : Coast of Chili) ; 

 Scl. &Salv. Ibis, 1870, p. 500 (Ancud ; Chiloe, Nov.) ; iid. Nomencl. 

 Av. Neotr. p. 146 (1872) ; Durnf. Ibis, 1877, p. 43 (Chupat Valley, 

 Nov.), p. 200 (Buenos Aires, April to Sept., common) ; Doering, 

 Expl. al Rio Negro, Zool. p. 57 (1882) ; White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 42 

 (La Plata, Nov.) ; Seebohm. Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 392 (1888) ; 

 Burm. An. Mus. Nac. Buenos Aires, III. part X. p. 246 (1888 : Falk- 

 land Islands) ; Oust. Miss. Scient. Cap Horn, Oiseaux, p. 291 (1891); 

 Hudson, Nat. in La Plata, p. 21 (1892) ; James, New List Chil. B. 

 p. 12 (1892) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. XXIV. p. 388 (1896); Schalow, 

 Zool. Jahrb. Suppl. IV. p. 659 (1898: Calbuco, Dec.) ; Sharpe Hand- 

 list B. I. p. 159 (1899) ; Martens, Hamb. Magalh. Sammelr. Vog. p. 

 15 (1900: Straits of Magellan & Falkland Islands). 



Limosa australis, Gray, List B. Brit. Mus. Part III. p. 95 (1844: San 

 Salvador Bay, E. Falklands). 



Limosa hcemastica, Baird, Brewer & Ridgw. Water Birds, N. Amer. I. 

 p. 260 (1884); Scl. & Huds, Argent. Orn. II. p. 191 (1889); Hol- 

 land, Ibis, 1892, p. 212 (Estancia Espartilla, July and Aug., rare). 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION. 



Size. Adult male. (P. U. O. C. 8629, Scarborough, Maine, U. S. 

 A., 27 August, 1877. N. C. Brown.) Total length, 14.7 inches. 

 Wing, 8.4 inches. 

 Culmen, 2.9 inches. 

 Tail, 2.9 inches. 

 Tarsus, 2.4 inches. 

 The sexes do not vary greatly in size. 



