the godwits. 
3'3 
Thei, rood is of Ite usual kind 
«o»-=ra^n^^^ . ve.di«. 
to find. 
Hest.— Like that of j- olive-brown colour, 
Eggs.-Four in number 0^ ^ ^ and underlying 
somewhat e|ual intensity. In some 
purplish-grey spots in abo eq congregate 
Lamples the spots are of a richer ^n 
“riestl a”^»t .0 an donga, ed pea, -shape. As.s, , 05- 
2‘35 inches ; diam., i 45 ^ SS- 
the black-tailed GODWIT. UMOS.A limosa. 
Scolopax limosa, Linn. Syst. -g jy. p. 269 (1852) ; 
limosa agocephala (Linn.) f f Sd'- ^ ‘ O. U. List 
Dresser, B. Eor- vul p- 2 1 1 , pk 5 m B. in. 
f ‘,8®8l.8l3)i Col. Fig. B,i,. E- pad xs™. 
Li,,.,, idsi,. (G»-). Mufixiv. p": 38. (■* 9 ‘)- 
Limosa limosa, Sharpe, toat. d 
^ ireneral colour above ashy- 
Adult Male in Winter Plumage. feathers ; lower back 
brown, ® upper tail-coverts white, the long 
and rump blackish-brown , upp .^ ^^^^^^^ brown than 
ones tipped with black , ' g gy^ri lighter brown exter- 
the baek; mednan 'ovo^^j/^'ljeatereo.ett. broadly tipped 
nally, and fringed with , g . blackish ; pn- 
wiAhite, forming ^ tipped with 
™,y-cover,s also b lacteh, J greater part 
white; Pr’^raries b , sub-termmally brown, the 
of the inner webs le outer web on all but the first 
white extending to the bpe primaries and 
SSvS?t“ S SSriS’; 
