Order CHARADRIIFORMES 
No. 190. 
FamUy SGOLOPAGIDJB, 
if 
LIMOSA LIMOSA MELANUROIDES. 
EASTERN BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 
(Plate 147.) 
Limosa melanuroides Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1846, p. 84 ; Port Essington. 
Limosa cegocephala (not Linne) Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., Vol. II., p. 178, 1827 ; 
Middendorff, Sibirische Beise, Vol. II., p. 218, 1851 ; Radde, Reisen Suden von 
Ost-Sibir., p. 331, 1863 ; Swinhoe, Ibis 1882, p. 121. 
Limosa melanuroides Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1846, p. 84 ; id., Birds Austr., 
Vol. VI., pi. 28, 1846; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 251, 1865; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 198, 1878; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 
1888; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., p. 944, 1892; Mathews, Emu, 
Vol. IX., p. 28, 1909; Buturlin, ib., Vol. XI., p. 97, 1911. 
Limosa mdanura (not Leisler) Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Avea, p. 113, 
1849. 
Limosa brevipes (not Gray) Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Vol. V., Scolopaces, p. 21, 1864 ; 
Salvador!, Omith. Papua, e Mol., Vol. III., p. 328, 1882. 
Limosa cegocephala melanuroides Stejneger, Bull U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, pp. 316, 338, 1885. 
Totanus melanurus melanuroides Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, Vol. III., p. 163, 1885. 
Limosa limosa melanuroides Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. X., p. 131, 1887 ; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 221, 1912. 
Limosa melanura melanuroides Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 391, 1887. 
Limosa melanura brevipes Campbell, Ibis 1892, p. 246; Taczanowski, Mem. I’Acawi. Imp. 
Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 929, 1893. 
Limosa limosa Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 381, 1896 (pars) ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 809, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 84, 1906 ; 
Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 26, 1908 ; id.. Emu, Vol. IX., p. 3, 1909. 
Distribution. Siberia (breeding), migrating southwards to northern Australia in winter. 
Adult male, in summer-plumage. Head and hind-neck cinnamon-rufous, the feathers 
centred with brown, more strongly pronounced on the crown of the head ; upper- 
back and scapulars blackish-brown, barred and margined with rufous ; marginal 
upper wing-coverts dark brown, as also the bastard-wing ; some of the median 
coverts blackish with pale margins, greater coverts brown, broadly tipped with 
white ; primary-coverts blackish edged with white at the tips, more broadly on 
the inner ones ; primary-quills dark brown on the outer webs and at the tips, 
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