EASTERN BARRED-RUMPED GODWIT. 
Limosa lapponica baueri Stejneger, Bull U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 122, 1885 ; Taczanowski, 
Mem. TAcad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 933, 1893; 
Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 220, 1912. 
Limosa lapponica uropygialis Seebohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, Vol. III., p. 157, 1885. 
Totanus rufus uropygialis id., ih., p. xxiv. 
Limosa rufa uropygialis Taczanowski, BuU Soc. Zool. France, Vol. X., p. 475, 1885 ; 
Seebohm, Georg. Distrib. Charadr., p. 387, 1887. 
Distribution. Siberia (breeding), migrating southward to Australia, New Zealand, and 
the islands in winter. 
Adult male, in summer-plumage. Head and hind-neck cinnamon-rufous with dark brown 
shaft-streaks to the feathers : upper-back and scapulars dark with white and buff 
marginal spots to the feathers ; the feathers of the lower-back pale brown fringed 
with white — ^these edgings becoming rufous on the short upper tail-coverts, the 
long ones barred with rufous and brown and tipped with white ; tail pale brown 
barred and tipped with white ; lesser, median, and greater wing-coverts brown, 
fringed with white ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform dark brown ; 
primary-quills also dark brown, paler on the inner-webs and mottled with white 
towards the base, the shafts conspicuously white ; the inner primaries and 
secondaries pale brown and edged with white ; tail brown, tipped and barred with 
white; a short white line immediately below the eye; eyebrow, throat, breast, 
abdomen, and under tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous, some of the under tail-coverts 
have dark brown bars ; under wing-coverts white with a subterminal brown bar ; 
axillaries white barred with brown ; biU blackish, pale at base of lower-mandible ; 
iris brown; feet blackish. Total length 373 mm. ; culmen 83, wing 224, tail 78, 
tarsus 51. 
Adult female. Similar to the male, but larger. 
Adult male, in winter -plumage. Top of head and hind-neck ash-grey with narrow pale 
brown streaks to the feathers becoming darker on the back and scapulars, some 
of the feathers of which are dark brown fringed with white ; upper tail-coverts 
brown barred and fringed with white, the long ones barred with brown and white ; 
tail dark brown mottled with white towards the base, some of the middle feathers 
subterminally barred with white, the shafts of the feathers white at the base 
and brown near the tips ; lesser, median, and greater wing-coverts pale brown with 
whitish margins like the secondary-quills ; bastard-wing and primary-coVerts 
uniform dark brown ; primary-quills dark brown on the outer-webs and at the tips, 
paler brown on the inner-webs and mottled with white towards the base, the shafts 
conspicuously white ; an ill-defined white eyebrow ; sides of face dusky white 
with minute dark shaft-lines, an indistinct line in front of the eye and the ear- 
coverts a shade darker than the rest of the face ; a narrow white line immediately 
below the eye ; throat dull white ; lower-throat and breast ash-grey with narrow 
blackish shaft-lines on the lower-throat and fore-neck ; the feathers of the breast, 
sides of body^ and under tail-coverts more or less barred with pale brown ; abdomen 
and vent whitish ; axillaries brown, barred and margined with white ; under wing- 
coverts pale' brown barred and margined with white. 
Nest. A depression in the grass 
Eggs. “ Clutch, four. Ground colour deep greenish drab to pale drab ; the markings 
are scattered in the form of irregular blotches of a dilute umber. In some the 
markings are more pronounced and more aggregated towards the larger end and of 
a much deeper shade of umber. Axis 57 mm. ; diameter 36-37.” (Baird, Brewer, 
and Ridgway.) 
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