MARBI.ED GODWIT. 
MARLIN. 
Limosa FEDOA. 
Char. Prevailing color dull rufous varied with black; rump and tail 
barred; bill pinkish ; legs and feet black. Length 17 to 20 inches. 
Nest. Near a stream or lake, — a slight depression sparingly lined with 
grass. 
3”4> pale tuff or olive, marked with brown and lavender; 
2.25 X 1.60. 
The Marbled Godwit is only a transient visitor along the sea- 
coasts of the United States in the spring and fall on its way to 
and from its breeding-place in the North. According to Rich- 
ardson, it abounds in the summer season in the interior of the 
fur countries, being particularly plentiful on the Saskatchewan 
plains, where it frequents marshes and bogs, walking on the 
surface of the swamp-moss {Sphagna), and thrusting do.wn its 
bill to the nostrils in quest of worms and leeches, which it dis- 
covers by the sensitive point of its bill, thus finding means to 
