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brown or chestnut barred with narrow dusky and whitish lines, 

 the markings much broader and more conspicuous behind or in 

 the neighborhood of tail ; the reddish 05 chestnut tint continuing 

 up faintly to a whitish throat ; the lining of the wings chiefly 

 sooty brown. Bill flesh color, becoming brownish black at the 

 end. Legs and feet slate color. 



Winter plumage. Above light warm gray, nearly plain, with 

 wings and tail about as in summer ; the white rump still conspicu- 

 ous. Under parts warm grayish white without noticeable mark- 

 ings, and becoming purer white behind. Bill and legs as in 

 summer. 



Immature birds and adults passing from one plumage to an- 

 other, of course show intermediate tints and markings. 



Length fourteen and a half to seventeen inches ; extent 

 twenty -six to twenty -nine inches; bill (curving slightly up- 

 ward as in picture) two and three quarters to three and a half 

 inches. 



Bange, as given in A. O. U. Check List, 1886 : Eastern North 

 America, and the whole of Middle and South America. Breeds 

 only in the high North. 



HUDSONIAN 60DWIT: AMERICAN BLACK-TAILED GODWIT: 

 RED -BREASTED GODWIT: ROSE -BREASTED GODWIT: BAY- 

 BREASTED GODWIT. 



I have failed to fall in with this bird on the coast of Maine, 

 and none of the many gunners conversed with there are at all 

 familiar with it. 



In Mr. Everett Smith's Birds of Maine* BRANT-BIRD (see 

 Nos. 53, 54, 60). In Massachusetts at Rowley, Salem, Boston 

 markets, Provincetown, West Barnstable, and New Bedford, 

 GOOSE-BIRD; at Ipswich and Salem, BLACK-TAIL; at North 

 Scituate, Provincetown, and Chatham, SPOT-RUMP; at West 

 Barnstable, WHITE -RUMP. I know of no other part of the 

 United States where this species can be more surely found dur- 

 ing its migrations than upon certain portions of the Massachu- 



* Published in Forest and Stream, 1883-83. 

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