BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 185 
Young.—Essentially like winter adults, but the cinnamon-buff 
or cinnamon color deeper. 
Adult male.—Wing, 221-228 (225.4); tail, 77.5-95 (82.9); exposed 
culmen, 92-119 (100.3); tarsus, 67-75 (69.4); middle toe, 33-37 
(85.4) .¢ 
Adult female.—Wing, 212-234 (224.1); tail, 79-89 (83.4); exposed 
culmen, 88.5-117.5 (104.8); tarsus, 67-76.5 (71.4); middle toe, 
36-40 (38.3).° 
Temperate North America, chiefly interior districts; breeding from 
valley of the Saskatchewan, Manitoba (plains of Souris River; near 
Winnipeg), etc., southward to North Dakota (formerly to Iowa, 
Wisconsin, and northern Ohio); during migration (occasionally or 
formerly, at least) near Atlantic coast as far northward as Maine 
(Portland), Prince Edward Island, and southern shores of Hudson 
Bay, and on Pacific coast as far as Vancouver Island; wintering from 
Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and southern Lower California south- 
ward to Cuba, Porto Rico, and Grenada, and through Mexico (Mata- 
moros, Tamaulipas; Cozumel Island and Mérida, Yucatan; Guan- 
ajuato; Valley of Mexico; Mazatlan, Sinaloa; San Mateo, Oaxaca), 
Guatemala (Chiapaém), British Honduras (Belize), etc., to Ecuadér 
(Santa Rosa) and Peru (Santa Lucia); accidental in Alaska and 
Bermuda? 
[Scolopaz] fedoa Linnazus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 146 (Hudson Bay; based on 
Greater American Godwit, Fedoa americana Edwards, Nat. Hist., 137; Limosa 
americana rufa Brisson, Orn., v, 287); ed. 12, i, 1766, 244.—GmELIN, Syst. 
Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 663.—Latuam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 718.—Turrton, Syst. 
Nat., i, 1806, 398. 
Scolopax fedoa Witson, Am. Orn., vii, 1813, 30, pl. 56, fig. 4—BonapartTE, 
Journ, Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 75 (crit.). 
Limicula fedoa VieituoT, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 248. 
Limosa fedoa SaBINE, in Franklin’s Polar Sea, 1823, 689.—Orp, ed. Wilson’s Am. 
Orn., vil, 1824, 30.—Bonararts, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, 1825, 75; 
Obs. Nomencl. Wilson’s Am. Orn., 1826, [157]; Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ii, 1826, 
328; Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 52.—Swatnson and Ricwarpson, Fauna 
Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 395 (Saskatchewan plains).—Lzsson, Traité d’Orn., 
1831, 554.—Nurrat, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 173.— 
AupbuBON, Orn. Biog., iii, 1835, 287, pl. 238; v, 1839, 590; Synopsis, 1839, 
246; Birds Am., 8vo ed., v, 1842, 331, pl. 348.—TownsEnp, Journ. Ac. Nat. 
a Five specimens. b Hight specimens. 
Some of the specimens measured (at least among the supposed females) are 
evidently wrongly sexed. According to Dr. Thomas S. Roberts (Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, v, 1880, 18) there is a marked difference in size between the sexes, five 
specimens of each sex measuring, before being skinned, as follows: 
Five males: Total length, 419.1-447.5 (431.8); extent of wings, 774-800.1 (789.9; 
“bill”? (exposed culmen?), 93-101.6 (97.5). 
Five females: Total length, 460.25-498.33 (485.03); extent of wings, 812.8-860.3 
(833.63; “‘bill”? (exposed culmen?), 115.31-128.52 (121.31). 
The original measurements were in inches and hundredths. 
