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HUDSOMIAN GODWIT. 
(Fedoa Hudsonica.) 
Fe. Jusca maculis albis, subtus castaneo-Jerruginea Jasciis fuscis, 
superciliis gula uropygio rectricihisqiie bast albis. 
Brown Godwit^ with white spots, beneath rusty-chesnut with 
brown bauds, the eyebrowSj throat, rump, and base of the tail- 
feathers white. 
Scolopax Hudsonica. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 720. 
Hudsonian Godwit. Lath. Syn. Sup. 246. Penn. Arct. Zool. 
Sup. p. 68. 
This approaches somewhat to the Red-breasted 
Godwit : it is given from Latham, who thus describes 
it from a specimen in his own collection : " Length 
seventeen inches : beak three inches long, turning 
upwards ; the base half pale, the rest black : top of 
the head blackish, spotted or streaked with dusky 
white : sides of the head and back part of the neck 
much the same : lore dusky : over the eyes, from the 
beak, a white streak : chin nearly white : back and 
scapulars dusky brown, spotted with rufous-white, 
one spot being placed on each side of the shaft, for 
the most part, though in the large feathers two : 
wing-coverts brown, some of the middle ones mixed 
with paler, with the addition of some white spots ; 
larger coverts plain ash-colour : quills black, the shafts 
white ; the base of all, from the fourth, white to about 
one-third of their length : rump and upper tail-coverts 
white : the under parts of the bird, the whole way 
from the throat to the vent, fine rufous-chesnut, 
V. XII. p. I. 6 
