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Synopsis of the Birds 
in . La Barge commune , Buff. pi. enl. 874. Limosa mela- 
nura , Leisl. Temm. Scolopax limosa , and S. cegocephala . L • 
Inhabits both continents : common at Hudson’s Bay, and 
in high northern American latitudes ; a transient visiter du- 
ring spring and autumn in the middle states : extremely 
common in the Netherlands. 
266. Limosa fedoa, Vieill.* Bill recurved ; rump uniform 
with the rest ; tail brownish, banded with black ; middle 
nail short, entire. 
Summer plumage, black varied with rufous, beneath rusty : 
winter, cinereous, beneath whitish. 
Great Marbled Godwit, Scolopax fedoa, Wils. Jim. Orn.vii . 
p. 30. pi. 56. fig. 4. female . 
Inhabits throughout North America ; a transient visiter in 
spring and autumn in the middle states : not very common. 
55. SCOLOPAX. 
Scolopax , L. Briss. Gm. Lath. Guv. 111 . Temm. Ranz. 
Rusticola , Scolopax, Vieill. Scolopax, Gallinago, Macro- 
ramphus , Steph. 
Bill long, slender, straight, sub-cylindrical, compressed, 
soft and flexible its whole length, point depressed, dilated, 
tumid, obtuse, wrinkled after death :f both mandibles furrow- 
ed to the middle; upper terminated by an internal knob; 
lower shorter, canaliculated, truncated: nostrils in the furrows, 
basal, marginal, linear, pervious, covered by a membrane: 
tongue moderate, filiform, acute. Head large, compressed, 
* Limosa rufa , Briss. Bill recurved ; rump white ; tail banded with 
black, middle nail short, entire. 
Summer dress, black varied with rufous, head and beneath rufous, the 
former streaked with brown : winter, cinereous, beneath pure white. 
La Barge rousse , Buff, pi, enl. 900. summer dress. 
Inhabits the north of the old continent : common in northern and wes- 
tern Europe. 
f Owing to the desiccation of their exquisite nervous apparatus. 
