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color is a clear, light olivaceous-drab; the markings are small 
and numerous, but not very strongly pronounced—there is noth- 
ing (in this set) of the heavy blotching and marking usually 
seen in wader’s eggs. The spots are pretty evenly dis- 
tributed, though rather larger in two instances, and more 
numerous in the other instance, about the butt than elsewhere. 
These markings are of various umber-brown shades, with the 
usual stone-gray shell spots.” Since those days it has been re- 
ported that several nests have been obtained which I have not 
seen, and I have had only one brought tome. The nest was 
described as constructed exclusively of grass, in a superficial 
excavation in the ground, on a dry prairie about 12 miles 
southwest of this city, and was found on the 5th of June, 1879. 
The eggs were three in number and essentially as described 
above, except that the largest was not quite as long as the 
longest given, and the shortest was a trifle shorter than the 
shortest, while of the same width. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Bill long, curved upwards, both mandibles grooved; wings 
long; tail short; legs long; tibia with its lower half naked; toes 
rather short, margined and flattened underneath; the outer and 
middle toes united by a rather large membrane; entire upper 
parts variegated with brownish-black and pale-reddish, the 
former disposed in irregular and confluent bands, and the 
latter in spots and imperfect bands; in many specimens the 
black color predominating on the back, and the pale-red on the 
rump and upper tail coverts; under parts pale rufous, with 
transverse lines of brownish-black on the breast and sides; 
under wing coverts and axillaries rufous; outer webs of 
primaries dark brown, inner webs light rufous; secondaries 
light rufous; tail ight rufous with transverse bars of brownish- 
black; bill pale yellowish-red at base, brownish-black at the 
end; legs ashy-black; iris brown. 
Length, 18; wing, 9; tail, 3.50; bill, 4 to 5; tarsus, 3. 
Habitat, North America. 
LIMOSA HHEMASTICA (1L.). (251). 
HUDSONIAN GODWIT. 
I have never met with this bird in the flesh, but have found 
it in several collections, leaving no question of its presence in 
migration. 
The first instance of its coming under my observation was 
in tre collection of Mr. Schroeder, of St. Paul, and subse- 
quently in Mr. Howling’s, of this city. It is found only as 
