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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  Patagonia. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  common 
  migrant, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  fall, 
  along 
  the 
  coast 
  

   of 
  New 
  York 
  and 
  the 
  Great 
  Lakes. 
  On 
  our 
  smaller 
  lakes 
  and 
  rivers 
  it 
  is 
  

   much 
  less 
  common 
  though 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  rarest 
  shore 
  birds. 
  The 
  

   spring 
  migrations 
  on 
  Long 
  Island 
  begin 
  from 
  the 
  1 
  5th 
  to 
  the 
  30th 
  of 
  March 
  

   and 
  end 
  from 
  the 
  ist 
  to 
  the 
  14th 
  of 
  June. 
  By 
  the4th 
  of 
  Julyafeware 
  already 
  

   returning 
  from 
  the 
  north 
  and 
  the 
  migration 
  is 
  well 
  under 
  way 
  by 
  the 
  ist 
  or 
  

   loth 
  of 
  August. 
  They 
  are 
  usually 
  found 
  in 
  numbers 
  through 
  September 
  and 
  

   October 
  and 
  a 
  few 
  are 
  observed 
  as 
  late 
  as 
  November 
  20th 
  and 
  December 
  8th. 
  

   Stragglers 
  of 
  this 
  species 
  like 
  the 
  Red-backed 
  sandpiper 
  are 
  occasionally 
  

   taken 
  in 
  midwinter 
  on 
  the 
  coast 
  of 
  Long 
  Island. 
  In 
  western 
  New 
  York 
  

   the 
  Sanderling 
  is 
  not 
  often 
  observed 
  in 
  spring, 
  but 
  sometimes 
  occurs 
  late 
  

   in 
  May 
  when 
  the 
  southern 
  birds 
  are 
  hurrying 
  to 
  their 
  breeding 
  grotmds. 
  

  

  The 
  Sanderling, 
  or 
  Surf 
  snipe, 
  is 
  the 
  whitest 
  of 
  all 
  our 
  sandpipers 
  

   and 
  our 
  most 
  characteristic 
  beach 
  bird. 
  Even 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  Sand 
  oxeye 
  

   they 
  prefer 
  the 
  sandy 
  beaches, 
  bars 
  and 
  flats 
  which 
  are 
  washed 
  by 
  the 
  waves, 
  

   and 
  are 
  usually 
  seen 
  running 
  in 
  troops 
  along 
  the 
  hard 
  packed 
  sand, 
  advancing 
  

   as 
  each 
  wave 
  recedes 
  and 
  retreating 
  as 
  the 
  next 
  advances, 
  gleaning 
  the 
  

   small 
  mollusks, 
  crustaceans 
  and 
  insects 
  which 
  are 
  washed 
  up 
  on 
  the 
  shore. 
  

   They 
  are 
  qtiite 
  gregarious 
  and 
  numerous 
  flocks 
  circle 
  up 
  and 
  down 
  the 
  beach 
  

   at 
  a 
  low 
  elevation, 
  occasionally 
  uttering 
  their 
  "slender 
  and 
  rather 
  plaintive 
  

   whistle." 
  Late 
  in 
  the 
  fall 
  they 
  become 
  exceedingly 
  fat 
  and 
  are 
  usually 
  

   regarded 
  as 
  a 
  delicacy. 
  

  

  Limosa 
  fedoa 
  (Linnaeus) 
  

   Marbled 
  Godwit 
  

  

  Plate 
  37 
  

  

  Scolopax 
  fedoa 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  10. 
  1758. 
  1:146 
  

   Limosa 
  fedoa 
  DeKav. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  252, 
  fig. 
  238 
  

  

  A. 
  O. 
  U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  249 
  

  

  limo'sa, 
  Lat., 
  muddy; 
  jed'oa, 
  of 
  unknown 
  derivation 
  

  

  Description. 
  Large; 
  bill 
  and 
  legs 
  long; 
  bill 
  bent 
  slightly 
  upward 
  for 
  its 
  

   whole 
  length; 
  tarsi 
  about 
  twice 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  middle 
  toe; 
  toes 
  narrowly 
  

   margined; 
  tail 
  short 
  and 
  even; 
  general 
  color 
  pale 
  ocherous 
  or 
  cinnamon 
  or 
  

   ocherous 
  buff; 
  head 
  and 
  upper 
  parts 
  streaked 
  and 
  barred 
  with 
  dusky 
  

  

  