NUMEXIUS. LIMOSA. 



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The female described has no exact locality. 



This species breeds in Arctic America and migrates south in 

 Av inter. 



Ranae in British Guiana. Unkno^vn. 



£^d-traUmital Range. South America generally and the Falkland 

 Islands. 



Habits. Lnrecorded in British Guiana. 



Geuu^ LIMOSA Briss. 



Liiiiosa Bnsson. Oni. v. p. 261, 1760. T^^l^e L. Jimosa iLiun.). 



This genus is at once distinguished from yumenius by its 

 straight or slightly upturned bill, which is about equal in length 

 to that of the tail. 



yig. 33. — To show the slightly upturned bill. 



71. Limosa haemastica. 



HUDSOMAN GoDwn. 



Limosa hcemasfica (Linn.). Syst. Xat. i. p. 147, 17oS (Hudson Bav) ; 



Bra bourne A" Chubb, B. "S. Aiuer. i. p. 40. no. 302. 1912. 

 Limosa hudsonira (Lath.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. p. 388, 



1896; Quelch, Tin^elm (2) x. p. 274. 1S96 ( Coa.^t of BritL^h 



Guiana). 



"Red-breasted Godwit or Marlin '' (Quelch). 



AdfiJt femaJe(siimtuer plumage). General colour of the ujtper sur- 

 face black with white or buff edges and bars to the feathers ; rump 

 dusky black with slight indications of pale edges to the feathers ; 

 short upper tail-coverts witli dark marks at the tips, long uj>ptM- 

 tail-coverts and tail bhickish, the latter nuirked with white. l)nff. 

 and grey ; l)a-t.ird-wing. priniary-i-overts, and quills black, tlio 

 latter having white shafts and brown inner webs, secondaries pale 

 lirown with wliite tips; liead streaked with brown anri white; 

 sides of face and throat burt'y-whitc with dark >haft-lines : foif- 



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