184 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM... 
VETOLA FEDOA (Linnzus). 
MARBLED GODWIT. 
Adults in summer (sexes alike).—General color pale cinnamon (or 
between pale pinkish buff and vinaceous-buff), becoming paler (pale 
dull buff or dull buffy whitish) on head, the superciliary region 
(broadly) nearly if not quite immaculate except posteriorly, the 
chin and at least upper portion of throat quite immaculate; head 
and neck otherwise streaked with dusky, the streaks broadest on 
pileum; scapulars and interscapulars with sooty black or fuscous- 
black predominating, this broken by broad bars and transverse 
spots of vinaceous-buff extending from edges of the feathers halfway 
or more toward shafts; lesser wing-coverts dusky grayish brown 
margined with vinaceous-buff; middle coverts vinaceous-buff broadly 
streaked and transversely spotted or barred with blackish; greater 
coverts light pinkish cinnamon with narrow zig-zag bars of grayish 
brown, the secondaries deeper light pinkish cinnamon, more minutely 
flecked (with transverse tendency) with grayish brown; tertials 
dusky obliquely barred with vinaceous-buff, the bars interrupted 
along median portion (broadly) of the feathers; primary coverts 
sooty black, the innermost (proximal) ones less blackish, mottled 
on outer webs with cinnamomeous, and margined terminally with 
pale buffy; four outermost (distal) primaries sooty blackish or dark 
fuscous, the fourth or third and fourth more or less flecked or mottled 
along edges with pale cinnamomeous, the proximal primaries cinna- 
mon sparsely and minutely flecked with dusky, their shafts dusky 
and (at least the longer ones) with a more or less distinct subterminal 
spot of dusky and narrowly tipped with pale buffy; lower back and 
rump pale cinnamon-buff or vinaceous-buff, each feather with a 
broad subterminal crescentic spot of dusky (becoming narrower on 
lower rump), the upper tail-coverts pale cinnamon-buff or vina- 
ceous-buff barred with dusky; four middle rectrices pale cinnamon- 
buff or vinaceous-buff distinctly and rather regularly barred with 
dusky, the lateral rectrices deeper cinnamomeous, with narrower, 
irregular bars and longitudinal markings of dusky; chest, breast, 
sides, flanks, and under tail-coverts narrowly and irregularly barred 
with dusky, the bars broadest on sides, more irregular and more or 
less lunulate on chest; axillars and under wing-coverts light cin- 
namon, the former with a few narrow zig-zag bars of grayish brown, 
the latter nearly immaculate; bill dusky terminally, brownish (dull 
flesh color in life) for about basal half; iris dark brown; legs and feet 
dusky (gray or bluish gray in life). 
Adults in winter.—Similar to the summer plumage, but chest 
immaculate, except laterally, the sides and flanks very indistinctly, 
if at all, barred. 
