Note on Limosa HvEmastica. — The Hudsonian Godwit being still a 
bird none too well known, I have pleasure in presenting some notes re- 
specting its liabits, and the dissimilarity of the sexes, received from G. S. 
Ageesberg, of Vermilion, Dakota, who also sends me specimens of a very 
dark female and of a light-colored male. Eegarding the habits of the 
bird, my correspondent states that they are very similar to those of Macro- 
rkamphus griseus ; and any one who will examine the latter genus closely 
will see how very near Limosa it is in form and proportions. He found 
these God wits abundant about Vermilion, where they were very unsus- 
picious and easy to secure, as the Red-breasted Snipe usually is. They 
arrive in his locality about May 1, and linger until about the 20th of the 
month. The flocks are small, generally of from six to fifteen individuals, 
among which the males outnumber the females by twenty to one. The 
specimens from which the following measurements were taken were shot, 
May 7-19, on a small pond covering some twenty acres near Vermilion. 
Measurements of Limosa hcemastica. 
No. 
Date. 
Length. 
Wing. 
Extent. 
Tail. 
Sex. 
Bill. 
Tarsus. 
Tail and 
Claw. 
May 
87 
7 
14.75 
8.00 
— 
3.00 
$ 
3.20 
2.30 
1.45 
88 
7 
14.50 
8.00 
— 
3.12 
$ 
2.95 
2.25 
1.35 
89 
7 
15.50 
8.75 
— 
3.25 
9 
3.45 
2.45 
1.70 
90 
7 
14.75 
8.50 
— 
3.12 
s 
2.95 
2.30 
1.30 
91 
7 
14.25 
7.75 
— 
3.00 
s 
2.95 
2.25 
1.55 
92 
7 
14.50 
8.00 
— 
3.00 
s 
3.00 
2.20 
1.55 
93 
7 
15.00 
8.42 
— 
3.25 
$ 
3.10 
2.20 
1.50 
102 
8 
14.50 
3.25 
— 
3.50 
s 
2.80 
2.30 
1.60 
103 
8 
15.00 
7.75 
— 
3.25 
$ 
2.95 
2.20 
1.55 
104 
8 
14.00 
7.50 
— 
3.00 
$ 
2.85 
2.20 
1.55 
105 
8 
16.50 
8.50 
— 
3.50 
9 
3.50 
2.55 
1.55 
127 
16 
16.25 
8.50 
— 
3.20 
9 
3.55 
2.50 
1.60 
128 
16 
14.75 
8.50 
— 
3.20 
S 
2.95 
2.35 
1.55 
129 
19 
14.75 
8.25 
25.00 
3.50 
$ 
2.90 
2.25 
1.55 
130 
19 
14.75 
8.40 
24.50 
3.50 
$ 
3.00 
2.20 
1.60 
131 
19 
15.00 
8.25 
— 
3.40 
s 
2.90 
2.20 
1.65 
132 
19 
15.00 
8.25 
26.00 
3.25 
$ 
2.85 
2.25 
1.55 
133 
19 
16.00 
8.40 
26.50 
3.50 
9 
3.40 
2.45 
1.50 
Males weigh 71 
to 8 oz.; females, 9 
to 9J- 
oz. — Elliott 
Coues, 
Washington, 
I). C. 
Bull. 
N.O.< 
0. 5, 
J an. 
j-* 
CO 
CO 
0 
P. 47-1,0 
Nomenclature of North American 
Birds, Elliott Coues. 
429. Limosa hsemastica {Linn. 1758) Coues. This is the second case 
of the kind. The Scolopax hasmastica, Linn., 1758, is based upon Edwards, 
pi. 138, that is, upon the Hudsonian Godwit, L. hudsonica of authors. 
Bull. N.Q.CJ, 5, April, 1880, p .100 
1180. Maryland Bird Notes. By J. Murray Ellzey. Ibid ., No. 14, 
Oct. 28, p. 264. — A Hudsonian Godwit shot at West River, Md. iFOr, fy pArea.C ., 7 ol. 21 S.VII 
Albinistic Pltunagrets. B. Deane. 
33. Limosa hudsonica. Hudsonian Godwit. — A specimen in 
the Museum at Amsterdam, Holland {Merrill). 
Bull. N. 0.0. 5, Jan., 1880. p. 29 
