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-anderling. 



The Sanderling occurs more or less commonly in Illinois and Wis- 

 consin during the migrations in May, and again from August to 

 October. 



Genus LI M OS A Brisson. 



122. Limosa fedoa (Linn.). 



Marbled Godwit. 



Distr.: Chiefly interior of North America, breeding from Iowa 

 north to the Saskatchewan; south in winter to Cuba and Central 

 America. 



Adult in summer: Bill, curved slightly upward; upper parts, 

 mottled with black and tawny; upper throat, white, rest of throat 

 finely streaked with brown; breast, pale tawny, the feathers banded 

 irregularly with brown; belly, tawny, sometimes without bands; 

 bill, dull flesh color in its basal half, the rest blackish; inner webs 

 of outer primaries, speckled with black; tail, barred with black; 

 axillars, irregularly banded with dark slaty brown, in some instances 

 merely showing an indication of bands but always with more or less 

 it-regular marks or dots where the bands are not perfect. 



Adult in winter: Top of the head, brown, streaked with pale brown; 

 feathers of the back, dark brown, edged with tawny; chin, white; 

 throat, pale buff, faintly barred with browm; inner webs of outer 

 primaries, speckled with black. 



Length, 19; wing, 8.80; tarsus, 2.80; bill, 3.50 to 4.50. 



The Marbled Godwit was once a common species in Illinois and 



