_Limosa Baueri_ Naumann, Naturg. Vög. Deutschl., 8, 1836, p. 429.
(Type locality, New Holland = Victoria, _apud_ Mathews; Novit.
Zool., 18, 1912, p. 220.)
_Limosa uropygialis_ Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus.
Godeffroy, 1881, p. 299 (Mortlock).
_Limosa novae-sealandiae_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool.
Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 66 (Luganor).
_Limosa lapponica baueri_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 65
(Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 34
(Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 67 (Marianas); _idem_, The Plant
World, 7, 1904, p. 266 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9,
1905, p. 80 (Guam); Prowazek, Die deutschen Marianen, 1913, p. 101
(Marianen); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Hartert, Vögel
pal. Fauna, 13-14, 1921, p. 1641, (Guam); Kuroda, in Momiyama,
Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 46 (Carolines, Marianas); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 191 (Marianas, Carolines); Bryan,
Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24 (Guam); Stickney, Amer. Mus.
Novit., no. 1248, 1943, p. 5 (Guam, Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest
Pacific, 1945, p. 41 (Oceania); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 537
(Guam); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 52
(Guam, Peleliu).
_Limosa lapponica novazealandiae_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 7, 1900,
p. 8 (Ruk); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 214 (Guam,
Truk).
_Limosa rufa uropygialis_ Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915,
p. 62 (Marianas, Ruk).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in northeastern Asia and northwestern
North America. Winters from Malaysia east to Oceania. In
Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam; Palau Islands--Peleliu; Caroline
Islands--Truk.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 5 (2 males, 3 females), as
follows: Mariana Islands, AMNH--Guam, 2 (Sept. 26); Palau Islands,
USNM--Peleliu, 1 (Sept. 7); AMNH--exact locality not given, 2 (Nov.
21, 23).
_Remarks._--The principal wintering grounds of the Pacific Godwit are
probably in Australia and New Zealand according to Stickney (1943:5).
The bird reaches these areas from Arctic breeding grounds by migrating
to a great extent along the edge of the Asiatic Continent. It may also
be considered as a regular migrant in western Micronesia, and probably
reaches eastern Micronesia as an uncommon visitor, since it is
occasionally recorded in the Hawaiian Islands.
At Guam in 1945, the NAMRU2 party found the Pacific Godwit at tidal
beaches on April 26 and October 15. Strophlet (1946:537) recorded one
bird from Guam on October 20, 1945. At Peleliu, the NAMRU2 party found
birds at beaches on September 7 and 16. Coultas (field notes) reported
that "a few" were seen at Peleliu from October to December, 1931.
McElroy did not find any of these birds at Truk in December, 1945.
=Tringa nebularia= (Gunnerus)