Marbled Godwit 119 
south along the coasts or across the continents to winter in South 
America, South Africa, South Asia and Australia, besides occurring as 
@ wanderer in most of the islands of the three great oceans. In 
America it chiefly winters along the coast from Virginia and 
California to Chili and Patagonia. 
In Colorado the Sanderling is a rare transient visitor in spring and 
autumn. It was first noticed from Colorado by Cooke, who reported 
an example in the Museum at Fort Collins, killed in the neighbourhood. 
Other instances are Horse Creek, May (Aiken coll.), Sloan’s Lake, 
Denver, May (H. G. Smith), Barr, May 31st and in the fall (Hersey 
& Rockwell), Loveland, September 24th and 30th and May 12th, 
Pueblo, October Ist (Cooke). 
Genus LIMOSA. 
Rather large birds—wing 7 to 9; with a long bill slightly up- 
curved, the culmen slightly exceeding the tarsus; wing long and 
pointed; tail short and even; legs long, tarsus far exceeding the 
middle toe, scutellate in front and behind ; toes short, rather flattened, 
basally webbed, especially between the inner and outer ones. 
An almost cosmopolitan genus with two common North American 
species. The Black-tailed Hudsonian Godwit has not been met with in 
Colorado, though known from Kansas. 
Marbled Godwit. Limosa fedoa. 
A.O.U. Checklist no 249—Colorado Records—Henshaw 75, p. 457; 
Morrison, 89, p. 168; Cooke 97, pp. 19, 66, 200; Hersey & Rockwell 
09, p. 116. 
Description.—Adult Male—General colour cinnamon, heavily barred 
and mottled with dusky above, the rump, tail-coverts and tail plainly 
barred rufous and dusky ; below finely barred with dusky on the chest 
and sides, streaked on, the throat, and white on the chin; primaries 
chiefly dusky, shaft of the outer one white; lining of the wings and 
axillaries chestnut ; iris dark brown, bill black on its terminal, reddish- 
brcwn on its basal, half; legs ashy-black. Length 17-5; wing 9-0; 
tail 3-3; culmen 2-9; tarsus 2-8. 
The female is rather larger—wing 9-5, culmen 4-5. There is no 
seasonal change, and the young birds are slightly paler and have the 
breast and sides unmarked. 
Distribution. Breeding chiefly in the upper Missouri Valley from 
Iowa to southern British Columbia, and migrating south in winter 
to Guatemala. 
The Marbled Godwit is a rare bird in Colorado, and has not yet been 
found breeding ; it is probably only a migrant. 
