THE BLACK-TAILED GOD WIT. 



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west as Lapland and Finland) to Siberia, Tjamen west of Tobolsk. 

 Yenesei, probably east to Taimyr peninsula, being represented 

 further eastwards by L. I. baueri. Migratory, wintering as far south 

 as Senegambia and Somaliland in Africa and Mekran coast and 

 Karachi in Asia, passing through intervening countries on migra- 

 tion. Casual Faeroes, Iceland, Canaries, Azores, Madeira, Natal, 

 and Seychelles. 



LIMOSA LIMOSA 



423. Limosa limosa limosa (L.)— THE BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 



Scolopax Limosa Linnseus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 147 (1758 — Europe. 

 Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Limosa cegocephala (Linn£eus), Yarrell, in, p. 488 ; Limosa belgica (J. F. 

 Gmelin), Saunders, p. 625. 



Description. — Adult male and female. Winter. — Crown, nape and 

 upper -mantle light drab, feathers narrowly tipped brownish -white ; 

 mantle and scapulars drab, feathers with darker shafts ; back and 

 rump sepia or black-brown ; upper tail-coverts white, lower ones 

 with distal halves black and narrowly tipped white ; ill-defined 

 whitish eye-stripe ; small white patch below eye ; sides of face, 

 sides of neck, lower -throat, breast and sides of belly light drab ; 





Half the tails of the Bar-tailed (left) and Black-tailed (right) Godwits. adults in winter. 



ilanks same, tipped white, some more or less white ; some under 

 tail-coverts usually irregularly marked blaek-brown ; remaining 

 under -parts white ; tail-feathers black, with white tips and bases, most 

 extensive on outer ones, two central pans shading to drab at tip ; 

 primaries sepia, paler on inner webs, which are more or less white 

 towards base, 6th and succeeding with outer webs white for more 

 than their basal halves ; secondaries sepia narrowly tipped white 

 and with basal halves white, 8th to 11th with outer webs more or 

 less white ; innermost secondaries and coverts as scapulars ; 

 primary-coverts sepia, inner ones broadly tipped white ; greater 

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