shows that the Australian bird has at all times the lower part of the rump strongly barred with 

 brown, while the same part in the Limosct ru/n, when in the light-coloured dress, is snow-white." 

 Both birds take on the rufous summer dress. 



The food consists of various marine insects, and small-shelled molluscs. 



The Barred-rumped Godwit is migratory in its habits, and spends part of the year in Siberia, 

 and visits, in the course of its annual migration, the islands of the Indian Archipelago, Polynesia, 

 Australia, and New Zealand. As yet, nothing is known of its breeding habits, nor have its eggs 

 been discovered. 



All the feathers of the upper surface have dark centres, and the edges nearly white, which 

 gives the ell'eet of cuckoo markings in brownish-grey; primaries, brown with white shafts; rump and 

 upper tail coverts, conspicuously barred with brown and white; tail, barred alternately in brown and 

 white; throat and abdomen, white; neck and breast, brownish-grey; under wing coverts and Hanks, 

 barred with white ; bill, white at the base, becoming brown at the tip ; irides, dark brown ; legs, 

 brownish-black. 



Total length, 15 inches. 



The immature bird has the feathers of the back of a much darker hue, and the tertiaries 

 are conspicuously touched with white, on their margins. 



Habitats: Port Darwin, Port Essington. Gulf of Carpentaria, Cape York, Rockingham Bay, 

 Tort Denison, Wide Bay Districts, Richmond and Clarence River Districts, New South Wales,. 

 Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and South-west Australia, New Zealand. 



