. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary . Fig. ICT. Foot of Sanderling 213. Genus LIMOSA Marbled Godioit. Marjln. Tail barred throughout with black audrufous ; rump and upper tail coverts like the back ; no pure white plumage rufous or ciunamou-browu; below, nearly unmarked andof very variable shade, usually deepest onthe lining of the wings; above, variegatedwith black aud brown or gray; quills rufousaud black ; bill
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary . Fig. ICT. Foot of Sanderling 213. Genus LIMOSA Marbled Godioit. Marjln. Tail barred throughout with black audrufous ; rump and upper tail coverts like the back ; no pure white plumage rufous or ciunamou-browu; below, nearly unmarked andof very variable shade, usually deepest onthe lining of the wings; above, variegatedwith black aud brown or gray; quills rufousaud black ; bill flesh colored, largely tippedwith black; feet dark. Large ; 16-22 ; wingabout 9; tail about 8i; bill 4-5, groovednearly to the end, usually slighthj recurved ;tibiae bare 1-1J; tarsus 2^-3i, scutellatebefore and behind; toes 1^, stout. Tem-perate North America, abundant; conspic-uous by its size aud coloration among thewaders that throng the shores and muddyor sandy bars of bays and estuaries duringthe migration ; breeds iu the U. S. as well as northward. Wils., vii, 30, , f. 1; NuTT., ii, 173 ; Aud., v, 331, pi. 348 ; Cass. IuBd., 740. fedoa. KEY TO N. A. BIRDS. 33. Fig. 168. Great Marbled Godwit. 258 SCOLOPACIDiE, SNIPE, ETC. GEN. 214-216. fV7iile-(aiIed Godicit. Tail, its upper coverts and rump, ■nhite, barredthroughout with blaclv ; head, neck aud under parts rusty-red in the breedingseason, in winter whitish ; above, grayish-brown, the feathers with darliercentres, and blackish shaft lines ; sides and crissum with sagittate black the size of the last. A widely distributed Old World species, and avery near relative of L. ritfa of Europe, lately discovered iu Alaska {DaU).Bd., Trans. Chicago Acad, i, 320, pi. 32 leopygialis. Iludsonian or Black-tailed Godwit. Bing-tailed llarlin. Tail black,laigely white at the base, its coverts mostly white ; rump blackish ; lining ofwings extensively blackish; under parts in the breeding season intenserufous, variegated
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