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258 SCOLOrACIDiE, snipe, etc. GEN. 214-216. 



"^'■7 Wdie-tailed Godtoit. Tail, its upper coverts and rump, white, barred 

 throughout with black ; head, neck and under parts rusty-red in the breeding 

 season, in winter whitish; above, grayish-brown, the feathers with darker 

 centres, and blackish shaft lines ; sides and crissuni with sagittate black marks. 

 About the size of the last. A widely distributed Old World species, and a 

 very near relative of i. rufa of Europe, lately discovered in Alaska {Dull). 



Bd., Trans. Chicago Acad, i, 320, pi. 32 ueopygialis. 



^^ Hudsonian or Black-tailed Godwit. Eing-tailed Marlin. Tail black, 

 ^ largely white at the base, its coverts mostly white ; rump blackish ; lining of 

 wings extensively blackish; under parts in the breeding season intense 

 rufous, variegated (chiefly barred) with dusky; head, neck and uj^per parts 

 brownish-black, variegated with gray, reddish, and usually with some 

 whitish speckling; ciuills blackish, more or less white at the base. Young 

 and apparently winter specimens much paler, tawny whitish below, more 

 gray above. Considerably smaller than either of the foregoing ; about 15 ; 

 wing 8 or less ; bill 3^- or less ; tarsus 2J or less. North America, rather 

 northerly, apparently not common in the United States ; a near relative of 

 L. mjocei^lmla of Europe. Nutt., ii, 175; Aud., v, 335, pi. 349; Cass. 

 in Bd., 741 . hudsonica. 



214-16. Genus TOTATTUS Beelistein. 



* Toes with 2 subeqnal webs ; legs bluish or dark. {Symphemia.') 

 Willet. Semipalmated Tattler. Bill straight, comparatively 

 stout, grooved little if any more than half its length ; toes 

 with two conspicuous basal webs ; 12—16 ; wing 7—8 ; tail 

 Fig 16!) Base of 2^-3 ; bill or tarsus 2-2f ; tibiae bare 1 or more ; middle toe 

 toes of wiuet. ^^^^ claw 1^-2. In summer, gray above, with numerous 

 black marks, white below, the jugulum streaked, the breast, sides and 

 crissum barred or with arrow-shaped marks of dusky (in winter, and in 

 young birds all these dark marks few or wanting, excejjt on jugulum) ; npper 

 tail coverts, most of the secondaries, and basal half of primaries, white ; 

 ends of primaries, their coverts, lining of wings, and axillars, black; bill 

 bluish or dark. Temperate N. Am., abundant; resident in the U. S., con- 

 spicuous in the^marshes of the Atlantic coast. WiLS., vii, 27, pi. 56, f. 3 ; 

 Nutt., ii, 144; Aud., v, 324, pi. 347 ; Cass, in Bd., 729. semipalmata. 

 **Toes with inner web very small; legs yellow or green. {Olottis.) 

 \ I ^ % Greater Tell-tale. Greater Yelloiv-sJianks. Stone-snipe. Tattler. Bill 

 ^ straight or slightly bent upward, very slender, grooved half its length or 

 less, black ; legs long and slender, j^ellow. In summer, ashy-brown above 

 varied -with black and speckled with whitish, below white, jugulum streaked, 

 and breast, sides aud crissum speckled or barred, with blackish, these latter 

 marks fewer or wanting in winter and in the young ; upper tail coverts white 

 with dark bars ; tail feathers marbled or barred with ashy or white ; quills 

 blackish. Largo; length over 12; wing over 7; tail 3 or more ; bill 2 or 

 more; tarsus about 2h, ; middle toe and claw 1^ ; tibia3 bare 1^. N. Am., 



