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PR^ECOCIAL GRALLATORES — LIMICOL2E. 
a deep greenish drab ; the markings are scattered in the form of irregular blotches 
of a dilute umber. The other measures 2.25 by 1.42 inches, and the ground-color is 
of a pale drab, the markings being much more pronounced than in the other specimen, 
and more aggregated toward the larger end, as well as more irregular in form, and 
are of a much deeper shade of umber. 
Limosa haemastica. v 
THE HUDSONI AN GODWIT. 
Scolopax hcemastica, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 147 (based on Edwards, pi. 138). 
Limosa luemastica, Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 1880, 100 ; Check List, 2d ed. 1882, no. 629. — 
Ridgw. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 545. 
Scolopax alba, Linn. S. N. I. 1766, 247 (based on Fccloa canadensis, Edw. pi. 139 ; Limosa Candida, 
Briss. Y. 290 ; Totanus canadensis, Edw. pi. 139, f. 1; Totanus Candidas, Brass. V. 207). 
Scolopax Candida, Linn. 1. c. 
Scolopax lapponica, vav. /3. Gmel. S. N. I. 1788. 
Scolopax Hudsowica, Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 1790, 720. 
Limosa Hudsonica, Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. II. 1831, 396. — Nutt. Man. II. 1834, 175. — Aud. Orn. 
Biog. III. 1835, 426 ; V. 592, pi. 258 ; Synop. 1839, 247 ; B Am. V. 1842, 335, pi. 349. — 
Cassin, in Baird’s B. N. Am. 1S58, 741. — Baiiid, Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 548. — Coues, 
Key, 1872, 258 ; Check List, 1873, no. 429 ; Birds N. W. 1874, 494. 
Limosa melanura, Bonat. Specc. Coni]). 1827, no. 204 (nec Leisl.). 
Limosa cegocephala, Bonar. Synop. 1828, 327 (nec Linn.). 
Limosa Eclwardsi, Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. II. 1831, 398. 
Limosa australis, Gray, Cat. Brit. Mus. 1844, 95. 
Hab. Eastern North America and the whole of Middle and South America. No West Indian 
localities recorded except Cuba. Breeds only in the high north. 
Sp. Char. Smaller than L. fedoa. Summer adult : Above, blackish brown, irregularly spotted 
and barred with pale ochraceous, the rump plain brownish black ; upper tail-coverts immaculate 
white ; wing-coverts and shorter quills plain dark brownish gray ; primaries brownish black, their 
shafts white. Lower parts chestnut-rufous, narrowly barred with brownish black, the feathers of 
the belly, etc., often tipped with white. Tail black, with the base and tip (narrowly) white. 
Lining of wings and axillars plain smoky black. Winter plumage : Above, plain dull brownish 
gray ; beneath, white, the breast shaded with brownish gray. Other characters as in summer dress. 
Young : Somewhat like the winter plumage, but each feather of dorsal region marked with a sub- 
terminal dusky crescent and a narrower terminal one of dull ochraceous ; beneath, very pale drab, 
or dull light buff, the abdomen whitish, and the jugulum more grayish. “Bill grayish yellow, 
dark brown along the ridge of the upper mandible, and blackish towards the tips of both ; iris 
brown; feet light grayish blue ” (Audubon). 
