THE BLACKTAILED GODWIN. 
Limosa egocephala, Linn. 
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Vornacular Names.—[Goodera, Gairiya, Jangral, Burra chaha. V. W. Pro- 
vinces ; Malgujha, Wefal ; Jaurali, Z. Bengal ; Susling, Sindh; Tondu ulanka 
(Telegu). 
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S—} HROUGHOUT the Himalayas, at any rate from 
oN, Kashmir to Sikhim, the Black-tailed Godwit has 
been met with, but chiefly, if not solely on passage, 
in autumn and spring. 
During the cold season it is pretty common, 
though rather locally distributed, throughout the 
Punjab, Sind, Rajputana, * Cutch, Kathidwar, Nor- 
thern Guzerat, the North Western Provinces and Oudh, and the 
plains portion of Bengal west of the Brahmaputra. 
Southwards of this tract it must be very rare in India. It 
does occur in Southern India, for Jerdon, in his Catalogue, 
distinctly states that, though rare, he has seen it there, and Lay- 
ard records it from Ceylon, but Davidson has not yet met with 
it in Khandesh. Blanford does not include it in his list of birds 
either of Central and Western India, or of the Wardha Valley, 
nor McMaster, in his Nagpore and Berar List, nor King in his 
Goona List, nor have I myself seen it, or received it from any of 
my collectors, in the southern or eastern portions of the Central 
Provinces. Ball does not include it in his Lists of the Birds of 
Chota Nagpore, or the country southwards to the Gddavari. 
Again neither does Lloyd include it in his Konkan List, nor 
Vidal in his of Ratnagiri, nor Fairbank in his Lists of the Birds 
of the Mahrathi country, and of Khandala, Mahableshwar, and 
Ahmednagar, nor Davidson and Wenden in their Deccan List. 
MclInroy does not mention it as observed in Mysore, nor appa- 
rently has Theobaid ever shot it in Southern India, south of 
the 12th degree North Latitude, most parts of which he 
has worked over during the last ten years. Nor has Mr. 
Bourdillon obtained it in Southern Travancore. 
This is all negative, but, while Jerdon’s statement proves that 
the bird does occur, all this evidence shows that it must be 
very rare in India south of the 20th degree North Latitude. 
West of the Brahmaputra, again, it seems to be rare. Colonel 
Graham writes that he has seen a few in Upper Assam ; but I 
* Ihave myself shot it as far south as the Kunkrowli Lake in Oodeypore. 
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