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PR2EC0CIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOLJE. 
extended lines, presenting an irregular front, which undulates and breaks as the 
Hock advances. On such occasions it rarely utters any cries. 
According to Mr. Moore, a few of this species remain about Sarasota Bay, Florida, 
during the summer months, although the larger portion leave for their northern 
breeding-grounds. Those which remain do not exhibit any symptoms of being mated. 
Mr. Moore does not credit the statement that this species ever breeds near Charles- 
ton : the fact is assumed, rather than proved. The plumage of those that remain in 
Florida is preserved unchanged. 
Three eggs of this species, belonging to the Smithsonian Institution, and obtained 
in Minnesota, range in length from 2.22 to 2.33 inches, and from 1.56 to 1.60 inches 
in breadth. Their ground-color is a pale greenish drab. Over the egg are scattered 
markings in the form of small blotches of olivaceous-umber. These become larger 
at the greater end of the egg, and intermixed with them are also a few washes of a 
dilute purplish slate. Three eggs in my own collection — one from Cleveland, Ohio, 
and two from Northwestern Iowa — do not materially vary. In regard to the nest of 
this bird we have no direct information. 
Limosa lapponica novae-zealandise. 
THE PACIFIC GODWIT, 
Limosa novce-zealandice, Gray', Voy. Erebus & Terror, Birds, 1845, 13. — Cass. Orn. U. S. Expl. 
Exp. 1848, 314 (Rose I., Samoan Group). 
Limosa lapponica, var. novce-zealandice, Gray, 1. c. 
Limosa lapponica, novx-zcalandicc, Ridgw. Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus. Yol. III. 1880, 200 ; Nom. N. 
Am. B. 1881, no. 544. 
Limosa uropygialis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, 38; Birds Australia, VI. 1848, pi. xxix. — E insch & 
Hartl. Beitr. Fauna Centr. Polyn. 1867, 177. — Baird, Trans. Chicago Acad. I. 1869, 320, pi. 
32 (Alaska). — Dall & Bannist. Ib. — Coues, Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 631. 
Limosa Foxii, Peale, IT. S. Expl. Exped. 1848, 231, pi. lxv. 
Hab. Shores and islands of the Pacific Ocean, from Australia to Alaska. Not recorded from 
the Pacific coast of America south of Alaska, except Lower California (L. Belding). 
Sp. Char. Admit in summer : Back and scapulars dusky, irregularly spotted with whitish and 
light rufous ; wing-coverts light grayish, with dusky shaft-streaks and whitish borders, the anterior 
smaller coverts darker and more uniform grayish ; primaries and primary-coverts dusky, the inner 
quills bordered with white. Rump dusky grayish, the feathers bordered with white ; upper 
tail -coverts white, tinged with light cinnamon, and irregularly spotted with dusky ; tail grayish, 
irregularly barred, and narrowly tipped with white. Head, neck, and lower parts, light cinnamon, 
