BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 



LIMOSA LAPPONICA (Linn.). 



Scolopax lapponica, Ldnn. S. N. i. p. 24?6 (1766). 



Limosa rufa et meyerij Naum. viii. pp. 446 and 428, xiii. 



pp. 246 and 247. 

 Limosa rufa, Macg. iv. p. 260; Hewitson, ii. p. 343. 

 Limosa lapponica, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 494; Dresser, viii. 



p. 203. 



Barge-rousse, French ; Ufer-Schnepfe, German ; Sarse- 

 ruelo, Spanish ; Tetol, Valencian. 



This bird visits the low-lying coast districts of the 

 United Kingdom on the double passage in May and 

 August and is said to remain, occasionally in large 

 numbers, throughout the winter in certain favourable 

 localities; on the other hand a few occasionally linger 

 with us throughout the summer, but the nest of the 

 Bar-tailed Godwit has not been recorded as even having 

 been found in any part of the British Islands. The 

 breeding-haunts of this species in the Old World are 

 confined to the extreme north-east of Europe and the 

 north of Asia, but little seems to be known concerning 

 the bird's habits in its nesting localities. In the 

 autumn and winter this Godwit occurs throughout 



