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ORNITHOLOGY. 



3. Genus LIMOSA, Brisson, Orn. V, p. 261 (1760). 

 1. LiMOSA FEDOA (jLiWi.). — The Marbled Godwit. 

 Scohpax fedoa, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 244 (1766). 



Edwards, Birds, III, Plate CXXXVII; Wilson, Am. Orn. VII, 

 Plate LVI ; And. B. of Am. Plate CCXXXVIII; oct. ed. V, Plate 

 CCCXLVIII. 



According to Mr. Peale : 



" Observed on the northwest coast of America, at Puget's Sound, 

 and in the interior of Oregon not uncommon." 



Dr. Pickering also mentions this bird as occurring on the Sacra- 

 mento River, California, in September, 1841. It appears to be one of 

 the species which wanders over the whole of temperate North America. 



2. LiMOSA NOViE ZEALANDi^, G. R. Gray. 



Limosa novce zealandice, G. R. Gray, Voy. Erebus and Terr. Birds, p. 13 (1845). 



Limosa lapponica, var. novm-zealandi<x, G-. R. Gray, ut supra. 



Limosa Foxii, Peale, Zool. Voy. Exp. Exp. Birds, p. 231 (1st ed. 1848).* 



From the specimen in the collection of the Expedition, we do not 

 feel justified in deciding on the absolute identity of this bird with Li- 

 mosa Japponica (which is held to be the same as Limosa rufa, and 



* "Less than Limosa hudsonica. Color pale tawny-brown, lighter beneath; crown 

 and back of the neck mottled with umber; breast and flanks slightly lineated; back- 

 feathers barred with umber; the wing-coverts have umber centres, and light tawny mar- 

 gins ; primaries and spurious wings fuliginous ; first quill longest; tail light tawny, with 

 eight pale umber bars ; it consists of twelve feathers ; bill slightly turned upwards, 

 slender towards the point, and dilated at the tip ; tip black, the rest reddish ; legs nearly 

 black. 



" Total length, fourteen and three-fourths inches ; wing, from the carpal joint, nine 

 and two-tenths inches; tail, three inches ; bill, two and nineteen-twentieths inches ; to 

 the corner of the mouth, three and one-tenth inches ; tarsi, two and one-twentieth inches ; 

 middle toe, including the nail, one and seven-twentieths inches ; nail, one-fourth of an 

 inch." 



