SCOLOPACINiE. SCOLOPAX. 
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Great Marbled Godwit, Scolopax Fedoa, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. vii. p. 30. 
Limosa Fedoa, Bonap. Syn. p. 328. 
Limosa Fedoa, Great Marbled Godwit, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. 
p. 395. 
Great Marbled Godwit, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 173. 
Great Marbled Godwit, Limosa Fedoa, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 287 ; v.v. p. 590. 
350. 2'. Limosa Hudsonica, Lath. Hudsonian Godwit. 
Plate CCLVIII. Adult, Male, and Young Female. 
Bill greyish-yellow, dark brown along the ridge of the upper man- 
dible, and blackish toward the tips of both ; feet light greyish-blue ; 
head and neck brownish-grey, with darker lines ; a band from the bill 
over the eye, and the throat, greyish- white ,* back deep grey, the sca- 
pulars brownish-black, with small white markings on the edges of the 
feathers ; smaller wing-coverts, alula, primary quills, and their coverts 
brownish-black ; secondaries lighter, and with their inner webs pale 
grey ; tips of primary coverts and bases of quills white, as is a broad 
band over the rump ; tail-feathers and upper tail-coverts brownish- 
black, their bases white ; lower parts bright yellowish-red, the sides 
mottled with dark brown ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts paler and 
variegated with dusky ; lower wing-coverts blackish-brown, edged 
with whitish. Young in winter with the lower parts pale brownish- 
grey, the upper brownish-grey, the fore part of the back and scapular 
brownish-black, the feathers edged with light brownish-red, wing- 
coverts brovniish-grey. 
Malej 15 1, 28. Female, 16|, 29. 
Rather rare along the Atlantic Districts in spring and autumn. Breeds 
in the barren grounds of the Arctic seas in great numbers. Migratory. 
Scolopax hudsonica. Lath. Ind. Orn. v. ii. p. 720. 
Limosa hudsonica, Hudsonian Godwit, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 396. 
Hudsonian Godwit, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 175. 
Hudsonian Godwit, Limosa hudsonica, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 426 ; v. v. p. 592. 
GENUS VI. SCOLOPAX, Linn. SNIPE. 
Bill twice as long as the head ; subulate, straight, com- 
pressed for half its length, depressed toward the end ; upper 
mandible with the dorsal line declinate at the base, then 
straight, at the end slightly arched, that part being consi- 
derably enlarged, the ridge convex, towards the end flat- 
tened, the sides with a narrow groove extending to near the 
tip, the edges soft and obtuse or flattened, the tip narrowed, 
but blunt ; lower mandible with the angle extremely fong 
and narrow, the sides erect, with a longitudinal groove, the 
