Limosa fedoa. 
East Orleans, Mass. 
Great Marbled Godwit, collection of Geo. N. Lamb, is a fe- 
male, shot Aug. 22, 1895, by Eli Rogers, at East Orleans, Mass. 
Was alone and did not whistle. I saw the bird when he shot 
it, as I was lying in the next stand, it came in over the 
beach wall and swung in over the marsh, it apparently paid no 
attention to his whistle or decoys and he made a long shot at 
it, flying high. 
Great Marbled Godwit, in my collection, is a female, shot 
Aug. 25, 1897, by myself, at East Orleans, Mass. This bird 
was alone when I shot it and made no call when I put it up. 
I was on my way home walking along the edge of the mud flats 
where they join the tall marsh grass, with my hands full of 
decoys on sticks, my gun under one arm and my pipe in my 
mouth. I startled the bird from behind a point of grass near 
the mouth of Cole's Creek and dropping the decoys put up my 
gun & dropi>ed the Godwit, knocking my pipe almost out of my 
mouth. I saw this bird earlier in the day among a flock of 
Blk-bellied Plover feeding on the mud flats. 
Chas.R.Lamb in litt. to Wm. Brewster, Cambridge, Oct. 2, 
1902. 
