Oedee LIMICOL^.] 
[Fam. SCOLOPACID^. 
LIMOSA NOVJ: ZEALANDIiE. 
(THE SOUTHEKN GODWIT.) 
Limosa haueri, Naum. Vog. Deutschl. viii. p. 429 (1836). 
Limosa lap]}onica, var. novce zealandice. Gray, Voy. Ereb. and Terror, Birds, p. 13 (1844). 
Limosa hrevipes. Gray, Cat. Grallae Brit. Mus. p. 95 (1844). 
Limosa australasiana, id. op. cit. p. 96 (1844). 
Limosa novce-zealandice. Gray, Gen. of B. iii. p. 570 (1847). 
Limosa uropygialis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1848, p. 38. 
Limosa foxii, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 231, pi. 65 (1848). 
Limosa riifa, Temm. & Schl. Faun. Japon. p. 114 (1850). 
Gallinago punctata, Ellman, Zool. 1861, p. 7470. 
Limosa laueri, Buller, Birds of New Zealand, 1st ed. p. 198 (1873). 
Native names. Kuaka, and Hakakao (Bay of Plenty). 
Ad. phi. Mem. suprjl brunnescens, pileo summo unicolore : colli plumis vix medialiter saturatioribus ; dorsi plumis 
conspicue medialiter saturatius brunneis, scapis nigricantibus, scapularibus cinereo lavatis : uropygio et 
supracaudalibus albis, fasciis brunneis conspicuis transnotatis : tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus extus 
fulvescente angustb marginatis, medianis et majoribus nigricante medialiter lineatis: primariis saturate 
brunneis, intus pallidioribus, scapis albis, secundariis cum tectricibus cubitalibus grisescenti-brunneis, 
albo terminals : cauda bruniiei, rectricibus centralibus ciuerascentibus conspicue albo terminatis : loris 
et genis albicantibus : corpore subttis sordide albo, collo inferiore et pectore summo ciuerascentibus, hypo- 
chondriis vix brunneo fasciatis : subalaribus et axillaribus albis brunneo transfasciatis : rostro brunneo, 
mandibula ad basin rufescente : pedibus saturate plumbeis : iride nigra. 
Adult in winter. Crown, sides of the head, neck all round, and the entire upper surface dull stone-grey, 
obscurely mottled with brown, and darker on the back and mantle, where eaeh feather has a broad central 
mark of blackish brown ; quills dark clove-brown, with w'hite shafts and freckled with white on their inner 
webs ; the secondaries and their coverts tipped with white ; tail-feathers blackish brown terminally edged 
with white, and with broken bars of the same on the inner web and towards the base j rump and upper tail- 
coverts white, conspicuously barred with blackish brown ; a broad streak from the base of the upper mandible 
to the eyebrows, the chin, and fore part of throat pure white j fore neck and breast pale cinnamon-brown, 
obscurely mottled j abdomen and under tail-coverts fulvous white, the sides of the body shaded with stone- 
grey, and many of the feathers, particularly on the flanks, more or less crossed with arrow-head markings of 
dark brown j lining of wings and axillary plumes white, the former with horse-shoe markings, and the latter 
with broad transverse bars of cinnamon-brown. 
Young. Crown of the head and sides of the face dusky brown, mottled with yellowish brown ; throat, and a 
streak from the base of the upper mandible extending beyond the eyes, white; neck, all round 
brownish grey, spotted with dark brown on the nape ; upper part of the back rusty brown, with darker 
centre spots, and mottled with white ; the scapulars light rust-brown, with a series of white triangular spots 
on each web j lower part of back greyish white varied with brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts white 
conspicuously barred with brown, these bars assuming on the outer feathers the form of arrow-heads • breast 
and sides of the body creamy white, sometimes stained with grey ; abdomen and under tail-coverts pure white 
some of the latter with irregular dusky bars j lining of wings prettily varied with brownish black ; axillary 
