. . t danger of ex-tinction. Elliot says that, like all the waders, they are metwith yearly on our eastern coast in diminished with us it is a bird of the salt marsh and the bordersof ponds. Since the above was written reports have been receivedregarding a flock of fifty or more large birds, apparently God-wits, that was seen at Chatham, Mass., in 1910. Undoubtedlythese birds were not of this species but were Hudsonian God-wits, as Mr. S. Prescott Fay records a flight of that species inAugust and September, 1910. Reliab
. . t danger of ex-tinction. Elliot says that, like all the waders, they are metwith yearly on our eastern coast in diminished with us it is a bird of the salt marsh and the bordersof ponds. Since the above was written reports have been receivedregarding a flock of fifty or more large birds, apparently God-wits, that was seen at Chatham, Mass., in 1910. Undoubtedlythese birds were not of this species but were Hudsonian God-wits, as Mr. S. Prescott Fay records a flight of that species inAugust and September, 1910. Reliable records were securedof twenty-five birds shot on seventeen different dates. Singlebirds were seen or taken; two were seen in one case, and inother cases ten and thirty or thirty-five were seen. Thesebirds were all Hudsonian Godwits, an unusual flight.^ « Fay, S. Prescott: Auk, 1911, pp. 257, 258. BIRDS HUNTED FOR FOOD OR SPORT. 297 HUDSONIAN GODWIT (Limosa hoemastica). Common and local names: Goose-bird; Black-tail; Spotrump; Whiterump; Ring-tailed j^ength. — 14 to 16 inches; bill , slightly up-curved. Adult in Spring. — Blackish above, mottled with buflF; head and neck rufous, streaked with dusky; rump blackish; upper tail coverts mostly white; tail black, wliite at base, tipped slightly with white; under parts chestnut, barred with dusky and white; bill reddish or flesh color, black toward tip; legs and feet in Winter. — Upper parts unmarked brownish gray, white spot still conspicuous; buffy whitish or dingy white below; breast — Lower parts similar to winter adult; upper parts brownish Marks. — Much smaller than the Marbled Godwit. The white spot just below the black rump and at the base of the black tail is conspicuous in — A very rare spring and irregular but less rare autumn migrant —North, and South America. Breeds from lower Anderson River southeast to central Keewatin; w
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