KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 281 
common during migrations, ranging from the Arctic regions to the West 
Indies and South America. The eggs are light olive and buff, spotted with 
brown, 
Genus LIMOSA Brisson. 
LIMOSA FEDOA (Zinu.). 
Marbled Godwit. 
Adult in summer: Bill curved slightly upward ; upper parts mottled with black and tawny ; 
upper throat white, rest of throat finely streaked with brown; breast pale tawny, the feathers 
banded irregularly with brown; belly tawny, sometimes without bands; bill dull flesh color in its 
basal half, the rest blackish. 
Adult tn winter: Top of the head brown streaked with pale brown; feathers of the back 
dark brown edged with tawny; chin white; throat pale buff faintly lined with brown; under 
parts reddish buff; sides faintly barred with brown. 
Length, 19; Wing, 8.80; Tarsus, 2.80; Bill, 3.50 to 4.50. 
Limosa fedoa. 
This species breeds in the interior from the Missouri region northward. 
It occurs in winter south to Florida and Cuba, but is not abundant anywhere 
on the Atlantic coast. 
The eggs are described as being from three to four in number and of a 
dull brownish ash color, blotched and mottled with gray and grayish brown. 
