. Feathered game of the Northeast . es are white-margined. Below every-where white, on the throat and neck faintly andirregularly streaked, and on the flanks markedwith wavy bars, of black. THE GREAT MARBLED GODWIT. (Limosa fedoa.) With the exception of the ^ sickle-billed cur-lew this is the largest of our species is mainly found in the interiorthrough the central portions of the continentwhere usually its migratory flights are made,and, except well to the southward, it is not com-mon along the Atlantic coast; especially rare onNew Englands shores. The bird looks like an over
. Feathered game of the Northeast . es are white-margined. Below every-where white, on the throat and neck faintly andirregularly streaked, and on the flanks markedwith wavy bars, of black. THE GREAT MARBLED GODWIT. (Limosa fedoa.) With the exception of the ^ sickle-billed cur-lew this is the largest of our species is mainly found in the interiorthrough the central portions of the continentwhere usually its migratory flights are made,and, except well to the southward, it is not com-mon along the Atlantic coast; especially rare onNew Englands shores. The bird looks like an overgrown brown-back with his red color and long, snipe-like wings are ample, extending well beyond theshort, square-cut tail. He is a big fellow, meas-uring from seventeen to twenty inches in length,and having a spread of wings varying fromthirty-three to thirty-seven inches. His generalcolor is a light brownish red, everywhere on theback this shade showing on the edges and tipsof the feathers, the central field of each being. THE GREAT MARBLED GODWIT 173 jet black. The breast and along the sides aremarked to a greater or less extent with duskylines across the feathers. The linings of thewings are marked with the same red color of theupper parts, usually brighter here and on thebreast. Wing quills dark brown, growingdusky at the tips. No white anywhere on thebird except on the shafts of the primaries. Billflesh-colored, growing dusky toward the blackish, the toes stout and flattened un-derneath, margined about by a considerablemembrane. Sexes marked alike. Nests like the upland, anywhere in openfields, or in the marshes in the more usualshorebird manner. Eggs three to four, grayishgreen, faintly splashed with brownish spots. It is a great pity that we do not see more ofthe Godwits in our territory for as a game birdand a delicacy for the table they rank flesh is equal to that of any of the smallershorebirds and superior to that of most of them. 174 FEA
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