BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 
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GRA LLA TORES. 
SCOLOPACIDJ?. 
BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 
Limosa rufa. 
PLATE XCIV. 
Eggs said to be those of the Bar-tailed Godwit, were 
brought from the North by the Rev. H. B. Tristram, and 
also by Mr. Wolley, and with evidence sufficient to jus¬ 
tify me in figuring them. The Bar-tailed God wit was 
seen in close vicinity to the eggs, the black-tailed godwit 
was never seen at all. Mr. Tristram, referring to the Bar¬ 
tailed Godwit, says, “ I found the bird, in the breeding- 
season, in Finmark, and shot several specimens in breed¬ 
ing plumage, where I found no trace whatever of the 
black-tail; I got the nest and shot the bird, a female, 
the same morning, close to the spot, but I did not flush 
her off the nest. 
“Mr. Wolley brought down his eggs, and they corres¬ 
pond so exactly with mine, that we could not distinguish 
them, but they were at once to be recognized among 
twenty eggs of the common godwit; I have no moral 
doubt whatever on the subject, though my evidence does 
not amount to absolute demonstration.” 
Mr. Wolley says that this species breeds in marshes, 
chiefly in the neighbourhood of mountains, that it gets 
up so warily from its nest that it is difficult to find it. 
The eggs figured are from Rowa, near Kittila in Fin- 
