BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. — 538 
easterly course to and down the western shore of Hudson Bay and 
keeps much this same course overland to the ‘coast of New England. 
Thence it goes directly across the ocean to the Lesser Antilles. and 
British Guiana, and lastly south and. southwest through central 
Brazil to the pampas of Argentina, and to the coast of central Chile. 
Judging by analogy from the golden plover, the spring migration 
route of the Hudsonian godwit is from the pampas of northwestern 
Argentina directly to the coast of Texas, and almost in one flight. 
This species is rare west of the Rocky Mountains. The British 
Museum contains specimens said to have been taken in California 
(Sharpe), but as this is the only record for the State it needs confir- 
mation. A.few specimens have been taken in Alaska from the 
Kenai Peninsula (Osgood) to the Yukon mouth (Dall and Bannister), 
Nulato (Sharpe), and Point Barrow (Stone) on the north, but there 
is no evidence that the species breeds west of the Mackenzie River. 
Though the Hudsonian godwit is now very rare on the New England 
coast, and has been. since about 1886, yet previously it was so com- 
mon that a gunner near Newport, R. I., records the shooting of 104 
birds in the years 1867-1874 (Sturtevant). 
Spring migration. —The species arrives on the coast of Texas in 
April (Sharpe) and has been recorded at ‘Lawrence, Kans., as early 
as April 19, 1873 (Snow) ; St. Louis, Mo., April 19, 1872 (Hurter) ; 
in Grant County, Minn., April 25, 1876 (Sennett): Indian Head, 
Saskatchewan, May 11, 1892 (Macoun); Fort Kenai, Alaska, May 5, 
1869 (Bischoff). preg ineds were ‘taken on the Falkland Islands as 
late as May 20, 1860 (Abbott), and in Argentina to May 24 (Sharpe). 
The ‘earliest eggs taken were on June y, 1862, at Fort Anderson 
(MacFarlane). 
Fall migration. —A Biological’ Survey party found the Hudsonian 
godwit already in southward migration July 19, 1900, near York 
Factory, Keewatin (Preble); ; it was noted July 29, 1869, on the coast 
of Rhode Island (Sturtevant) ; ; it arrives in Dues in the Lesser An- 
tilles (Leotaud); in ‘September in. Brazil (Pelzeln); and by early 
November has appeared at the extreme southern limit of the range 
(Durnford). Itis probably the arrival of young birds that is recorded 
at Barbados (Feilden) in October, with October 7 as the average of 
three years and October 5, 1886, as the earliest. 
The last séen near Cape Churchill, Hudson Bay, in 1900, was on 
August 24 (Preble) ; Toronto, Ontario, October 20, 1890 (Fleming) ; 
Montreal, Canada, October 11, 1895 (Wintle) ; Hhode. Island, October 
13, 1873 (Sturtevant), and Massachusetts, November 3 (iowe and 
Allen) 
Black-tailed Godwit. Limosa limosa (Linn.). 
‘The black-tailed godwit is confined to the Eastern Hemisphere, 
breeding in Iceland, and from Holland and southern Russia north to 
the Arctic Circle and east to western Siberia. It winters in southern 
