. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . imaries, blackish brown, shaftswhite; secondaries, blackish brown, with buff and white spots or brokenbars on outer webs; axillaries, brownish black; rump, brownish black;upper tail-coverts, pure white; tail, black, the base and tip white; super-ciliary stripe, white, speckled with dark brown; throat, buffy white, nar-rowly streaked with bla
. North American shore birds; a history of the snipes, sandpipers, plovers and their allies, inhabiting the beaches and marshes of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, the prairies and the shores of the inland lakes and rivers of the North American continent . imaries, blackish brown, shaftswhite; secondaries, blackish brown, with buff and white spots or brokenbars on outer webs; axillaries, brownish black; rump, brownish black;upper tail-coverts, pure white; tail, black, the base and tip white; super-ciliary stripe, white, speckled with dark brown; throat, buffy white, nar-rowly streaked with black; lower parts, dark chestnut, narrowly barredwith black ; feathers, margined with grayish white on the sides and on theabdomen; under tail-coverts, white, barred with black, sometimes withbuff also; bill, flesh color, black for apical third; feet and legs, grayishblue; iris, brown. Length, 14-16 inches; wing, 8; tail, 3^ ; culmen, 3;tarsus, 2^^. Adult in Wintcr.—Head, neck, and lower parts, grayish buff, shadedwith brownish gray; upper parts, dark grayish brown; wings, rump, tail,etc., as in summer. The young resemble the winter plumage, but thefeathers of the back have a subterminal blackish-brown bar, edged withbuff; beneath, pale buffy 34- Black-tailed Godwit. BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. A N occasional appearance in Greenland is the only■**■ claim this species has to a place in the NorthAmerican fauna. It belongs to the Old World, notcommon in Great Britain, but breeds in the northernpart of the continent of Europe, as far westward as thecoast opposite the British islands. It migrates fromits African winter quarters in large flocks and spreadsover various portions of the Eiiropean continent. Itbreeds in Poland, making a depression in a tussock andlines it with grass. Four eggs are deposited, dullgreenish in color, marked with dark brownish olive,and the birds resent with loud cries any intrusion intotheir domain, as has been already mentioned in the de-scription of t
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