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PR^COCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL^. 



extended lines, presenting an irregular front, whicli undulates and breaks as the 

 flock advances. On such occasions it rarely utters any cries. 



According to Mr. Moore, a few of this species remain about Sarasota Bay, Florida, 

 during the summer months, although the larger portion leave for their northern 

 breeding-grounds. Those which remain do not exhibit any symptoms of being mated. 

 Mr. Moore does not credit the statement that this species ever breeds near Charles- 

 ton : the fact is assumed, rather than proved. The plumage of those that remain in 

 Florida is preserved unchanged. 



Three eggs of this species, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, and obtained 

 in Minnesota, range in length from 2.22 to 2.33 inches, and from 1.56 to l.GO inches 

 in breadth. Their ground-color is a pale greenish drab. (Jver the egg are scattered 

 markings in the form of small blotches of olivaceous-umber. These become larger 

 at the greater end of the egg, and intermixed with them are also a few washes of a 

 dilute purplish slate. Three eggs in my own collection — one from Cleveland, Ohio, 

 and two from Northwestern Iowa — do not materially vary. In regard to the nest of 

 this bird we have no direct information. 



Limosa lapponica novce-zealandiae. 



THE PACIFIC GODWIT. 



Limosa noi'cc-zcnlandicc, GuAV, Voy. Erebus & Tenor, Binls, 1845, 13. — Cass. Orn. U. S. Expl. 



E.\p. 1848, 314 (Rose I., Samoau Grouii). 

 Limosa lapponica, var. nova-zealandia;, Gray, 1. c. 

 Limosa lapponica nova:-zealandia', Ridgw. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. III. 1880, 200 ; Nom. N. 



Am. B. 1881, no. 544. 

 Limosa uropygialis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, 38; Birds Au-stralia, VI. 1848, pi. xxix. — Fixscii & 



Hartl. Beitr. Fauna Centr. Polyn. 1867, 177. — Baird, Trans. Chicago Acad. I. 1869, 320, pi. 



32 (Alaska). —Dall & Bannist. lb. — Coues, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, uo. 631. 

 Limosa Foxii, Peale, U. S. Expl. E.xped. 1848, 231, pi. Ixv. 



Hab. Shores and islands of the Pacific Ocean, from Australia to Alaska. Not recorded from 

 the Pacific coast of America south of Alaska, except Lower California (L. Beldisg). 



Sp. Char. Adult in summer : Back and scapulars dusky, irregularly spotted with whitish and 

 light rufous ; wing-coverts light grayish, wilh dusky shaft-streaks and whitish borders, the anterior 



smaller coverts darker and more uniform grayish ; primaries and primary-coverts dusky, the inner 

 quills bordered with white. Rump dusky grayish, the feathers bordered with white ; upper 

 tail -coverts wliite, tinged with light cinnamon, and irregularly spotted with dusky ; tail grayish, 

 irregularly barred, and narrowly tipped with white. Head, neck, 'and lower parts, light cinnamon. 



