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PR.ECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOLiE. 



a deep greenish drab ; the markings are scattered iu the form of irregular blotches 

 of a dilute umber. The other measures 2.25 by 1.42 inches, and the ground-color is 

 of a pale drab, the markings being much more pronounced than in the other specimen, 

 and more aggregated toward the larger end, as well as more irregular in form, and 

 are of a much deeper shade of umber. 



Limosa haemastica. 



THE HUDSONIAN GODWIT. 



Scolopax hccmastica, Lixx. S. X. ed. 10, I. 1758, 147 (based on Edwards, pi. 138). 



Limosa hcsmastica, CouES, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1880, 100 ; Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 629. — 



RiDGW. Noni. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 545. 

 ScoIoiKi.x alha, Linn. S. N. I. 1766, 247 (based on Fedoa. canadensis, Edw. jil. 130 : Limosa Candida, 



Bkiss. V. 290 ; Totanus canadensis, Eii\v. i>l. 139, f. 1; Totanus Candidas, Bki.ss. V. 207). 

 Scolopax Candida, Lixx. 1. c. 

 Scolopax lapjjonica, var. /3. Gmel. S. N. I. 1788. 

 Scolopax Hndsonica, L.\TH. Ind. Orn. IL 1790, 720. 

 Limosa Hudsonica, S\v. & Rich. F. B. A. IL 1831, 396. — Nutt. Man. IL 1834, 175. — Avd. Orn. 



Biog. III. 1835, 426 ; V. 592, pi. 258 ; Synop. 1839, 247 ; B Am. V. 1842, 335, pi. 349. — 



Cassin, in Baird's B. N. Am. 1858, 741. — Baiud, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 548. — CouES, 



Key, 1872, 258 ; Check List, 1873, no. 429 ; Birds N. ^\ . 1874, 494. 

 Limosa melanura, Bonap. Specc. Com]). 1827, no. 204 (nee Lei.'<l.). 

 Limosa ccgoccphala, Boxap. Synop. 1828, 327 (nee Lixx.). 

 Limosa Edwardsi, Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. 11. 1831, 398. 

 Limosa australis. Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. 1844, 95. 



Hab. Eastern North .America and the whole of Middle and South Ainerica. No West Indian 

 localities recorded except Cuba. Breeds only in the high north. 



Sp. Char. Smaller than L.fedoa. Summer adult: Above, blackish brown, irregularly spotted 

 and barred with pale ochraceous, the rump plain brownish black ; upper tail-coverts immaculate 

 white ; wing-coverts and shorter quills plain dark brownish gray ; primaries brownish black, their 



shafts white. Lower parts chestnut-rufous, narrowly barred with brownish black, the feathers of 

 the belly, etc., often tipped with white. Tail black, with the base and tip (narrowly) white. 

 Lining of wings and axillars plain smoky black. Winter pluiiMge : Above, ]ilain dull browiiish 

 gray ; beneath, wliite, the breast shaded witli brownish gray. Other characters as in summer dress. 

 Young : Somewhat like the winter plumage, hut each feather of dorsal region marked with a sub- 

 terminal dusky crescent and a nari'ower terminal one of dull ochraceous ; beneath, very pale drah, 

 or dull light buff, the abdomen whitish, and the jugulura more grajdsh. ''Bill grayish yellow, 

 dark brown along the ridge of the upper mandible, and blacki.sh towards the tips of both ; iris 

 brown ; feet light grayish blue " (Audubon). 



