282 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. 
LIMOSA HAEMASTICA (Zimm.). 
Hudsonian Godwit. 
Adult in summer: Bill slightly curved up; top of the head dusky, showing pale brown 
streaks; back black, the feathers spotted with tawny brown. Upfer tail coverts white; chin 
whitish dotted with dusky; throat reddish brown streaked with brown; under parts dark rufous 
brown, faintly and irregularly banded with black. Bill grayish yellow, dark brown along the 
ridge of the upper mandible, and blackish towards the tips of both. 
Adult in winter: General plumage grayish; top of the head gray mottled with brown; back 
gray; some of the feathers tipped with dark brown and indistinctly edged with dull whitish; 
upper tail coverts white; chin white; throat ash gray; under parts grayish white. 
Length, 15.50; Wing, 8.30; Tarsus, 2.30; Bill, 3 to 3.40. 
Ranges in Eastern North America from the far North south to South 
America. It is becoming less common every year, although at one time it 
was an abundant species, during the migrations, on our coast. 
Breeds in the far North; the eggs are described as dark brownish olive 
lined and spotted with dark brown. 
Genus TOTANUS Becusr. 
Suscenus GLOTTIS Kocu. 
TOTANUS NEBULARIUS (Guzzn.). 
Green-shank. 
This species has the general appearance of a Winter Yellow-leg (Zotanus melanoleucus), 
although the marking is somewhat different. It is a very rare bird on our coast, there being 
no actual record since Audubon’s time, who states that specimens were taken in Florida, near 
Cape Sable. It may easily be distinguished by the greenish-gray legs and the dusky-green 
bill, which is dark at the tip, and the white rump. 
Length, 14; Wing, 7.20; Bill, 2.30 to 2.50; Tarsus, 2.30. 
