HUDSONIAN GODWIT. 427 



ScoLOPAX Hudson ic A, Lath. lud. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 720. 



LiMOSA HuDsoNiCA, HuDsoNiAN GoDwiT, Sivains. and Richards. Fauna-Bor. Amer. 



part ii. p. 396. 

 HuDSONiAN GoDwiT, Nuttall, Manual, vol. ii. p. 175. 



Adult Male. Plate CCLVIII. Fig. 1. 



Bill double the length of the head, subcylindrical, compressed at the 

 base, tapering to the obtuse point, which is a little enlarged, slightly re- 

 curved. Upper mandible with the dorsal line slightly curved upwards 

 in its whole extent, the ridge convex, the sides with a narrow groove ex- 

 tending almost to the point, the edges rather obtuse, the tip slightly en- 

 larged. Nostrils basal, lateral, near the edges, small, linear, pervious. 

 Lower mandible with the angle very long and extremely narrow, the 

 dorsal line slightly recurved, the sides with a narrow groove extending 

 almost to the end, the edges rather blunt, the tip obtuse. 



Head small, oblong, compressed. Neck rather long and slender. 

 Body slender. Feet long and slender ; tibia bare for about a third, an- 

 teriorly scutellate ; tarsus long, slender, covered anteriorly and posterior- 

 ly with numerous scutella, laterally for a very small space reticulate ; toes 

 small, slender, scutellate above, flat beneath, broadly marginate, the an- 

 terior connected at the base by webs, of which the outer is much larger ; 

 first toe very small, second slightly shorter than fourth, third little longer. 

 Claws small, compressed, slightly arched, obtuse, that of middle toe with 

 the inner edge curved outwards and thin. 



Plumage soft on the head, neck and lower parts blended, on the back 

 imbricated ; all the feathers oblong and rounded. Wings long, very 

 acute, narrow ; primaries tapering, the first longest, the second little 

 shorter, the rest rapidly graduated ; secondaries incurved, obliquely round- 

 ed, with a recurved tip, the inner elongated and tapering. Tail short, of 

 twelve rounded feathers, slightly forked, but with the two middle feathers 

 a little longer than those next them. 



Bill greyish-yellow, dark brown along the ridge of the upper mandi- 

 ble, and blackish toward the tips of both. Iris brown. Feet hght 

 greyish-blue. The head and neck brownish-grey, with darker lines ; a 

 band from the bill over the eye, and the throat greyish- white ; the back 

 deep grey ; the scapulars brownish-black, with small white markings on 

 the edges of the feathers ; the smaller wing-coverts, alula, primary quills 

 and their coverts brownish-black ; the secondaries lighter, and with their 



