Order CHA FA DRII FORMES. 
No. 123. 
Family SCOLOPACID/E. 
VETOLA H/EMASTICA. 
HUDSON!AN GODWIT. 
(Plate 89.) 
Scolopax hjemastica Linne, Syst, Nat., 10th edn., p. 147, Jan. 1st, 1758 : Hudson Bay, North 
America. 
Scolopax hazmastica Linn6, Syst. Nat., 10th edn., p. 147, Jan. 1st, 1758. 
Scolopax hudsonica Latham, Index Om., Vol. II., p. 720 (before Dec. 9th) : Hudson Bay. 
Limosa edwardsii Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Americ. Zool., Birds, p. 398 (note), 1831=Feb. 1832 : 
Hudson Bay. 
Limosa australis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 389,1896 (pref. July 10th), ex Gray, 
List Grail. Brit. Mus., p. 95, 1844, nude name. 
Limosa hcemastica Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. XII. (Water Birds 
of North America, Vol. I.), p. 260,1884 (Head figured, eggs described) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV., p. 388, 1896 (pref. July 10th) ; Forbush, Birds Massachusetts, 
Vol. I., p. 429, pi. 29, 1925 (adult in breeding and wrinter plumage) ; Bent, Life Hist. N. 
Amer. Shore Birds, Part I., p. 295, 1927. 
Limosa hudsonica Buller, Birds New Zealand, Suppl., Vol. I., p. 185, 1905 : New Zealand ; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1905, Oct., p. 563. 
Vetola hcemastica Mathews, Syst. Av. Austral., p. 168, June 13th, 1927; id., Emu, Vol. XXIX., 
pt. 4, p. 280, April 1st, 1930. 
Distribution. Breeding in Arctic Canada. North America to southern South America (New 
Zealand, one record, shot by Mr. Edgar Stead at Lake Ellesmere, Canterbury, March 4th, 
1902). A migrant to Guam and other islands north of Australia. 
Adult male in breeding plumage. Fore-head blackish-brown, each feather margined with wdiite ; 
crown of head, nape and hind-neck blackish-brown, bordered with isabelline ; lower neck 
and mantle brownish-black, broadly margined at the tip with isabelline-grey and with a 
broken bar of greyish-white across the centre of each feather ; lower back and rump dark 
smoky-grey; shorter upper tail-coverts white, the longer ones black; middle pairs of 
tail-feathers black, shading into isabelline towards the extremities and tipped with white ; 
outer pairs black, white at the base and narrowly tipped with white; lesser wing-coverts 
blackish-grey ; median and greater coverts greyish-brown, narrowly margined with white; 
bastard-wing blackish-grey ; primary-quills blackish with ivory-white shafts ; lores and 
feathers round the eye white, speckled with brown ; chin and throat white, minutely spotted 
with blackish-brown ; cheeks and chest greyish-isabelline w r ith dusky centres to the 
feathers ; remainder of the under-surface barred writh rufous-chestnut and dusky-brown, 
each feather tipped writh wriiite ; under wring-coverts leaden-grey, margined writh white ; 
axillaries uniform dull black. Total length about 420 mm. : culrnen 88, wring 221, tail 77, 
tarsus 67. Figured. Collected at Brownsville, Texas, April 26th, 1902. 
Adult in winter plumage. Fore-head, crown, occiput, nape and hind-neck, mantle, scapulars, 
lower back and rump uniform greyish-brown, darkest on the latter ; a streak of wriiite 
from the base of the upper mandible to the eye, white; shorter upper tail-coverts wriiite, 
longer ones white on the basal half and black on the terminal half ; lesser wring-coverts 
brownish-black ; median and greater coverts like the back ; primary-quills black writh 
ivory-white shafts ; middle tail-feathers black, shading to greyish-brow T n at the tip, outei- 
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