SANDPIPERS 



(251) Limosa haemastica 



{Linn.) (Gr., bloody red). 



HUDSONIAN GODWIT; 

 BLACK-TAIL, WHITE-RUMP or 

 RING-TAILED MAKLIN. Ads. in 

 summer — Plumage as shown, bright 

 reddish below, barred with blaclcish; 

 rump black; tail chiefly black, but 

 the coverts white. In wiiilcr — 

 Markings similar but general tone 

 gray above and lighter below. L., 

 16.00; W., 8.00; Tar., 2.50; B., 3.25. 



Ratine — Breeds on the Arctic 

 coast. Migrates chiefly along the 

 Atlantic coast in fall and up the Miss. 

 Valley in spring. Winters in South 



(252) ' BLACK-TAILED GOD- 

 WIT (L. limosa). An Old World 

 species occurring accidentally in 

 Greenland. 



higher and dryer location, lining some shallow depression 

 with grasses, on which the four-spotted and blotched, buff- 

 colored eggs are laid. The female is very solicitous when the 

 nest is discovered and will often hover over the spot until 

 the intruder leaves. They seem to be about as anxious about 

 their comrades, for, if one is wounded and calls out, or the 

 gunner imitates their cry, the flock will continually return, 

 only to lose one or two more of their number each time. As 

 they are of fair size and quite toothsome, most hunters lose 

 no opportunity to bag as many as possible of them, with the 

 usual result that they are yearly becoming rarer. 



HUDSONIAN GODWITS, or Ring-tailed Marlins, are 

 only a little smaller than the last species. They are much 

 more abundant and will probably be found for years after 

 the last of the others are seen, because they nest along our 

 barren Arctic coasts, where nothing but beasts and birds of 

 prey can harm them; and they spend the winter months in 

 southern South America, where the deadly shotgun and 

 blind is not an ever-present menace. They are said to breed 



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