Plate CCXXXVIII. Male and Female.
Bill dull flesh-colour at the base, blackish-brown toward the end;
feet bluish-grey; head and neck light yellowish-grey, streaked with
dusky; the rest of the upper parts spotted and barred with
brownish-black and greyish-yellow; alula and primary coverts
brownish-black, as are the outer webs of the first three quills, those
of the other primaries, and both webs of the secondaries,
reddish-ochre, all more or less finely mottled with dusky, and the
primaries of that colour towards the end, but with the terminal
margins whitish; the inner secondaries barred like the back, as are
the tail-feathers; breast, abdomen, and lower surface of wings, light
reddish-yellow, the axillar feather of a deeper tint, the sides
faintly barred with dusky.
_Male_, 16-1/2, 28-1/2. _Female_, 20-1/2.
Passes in spring from Texas along the coast, in immense flocks, to
Massachusetts, and apparently across the land, to the Saskatchewan,
where it breeds. None seen in Labrador. A few breed in South Carolina,
perhaps also in Texas. Not observed in the Western Country. In autumn
returns southward beyond the limits of the United States.
Great Marbled Godwit, Scolopax Fedoa, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii.
p. 30.
Limosa Fedoa, Bonap. Syn. p. 328.
Limosa Fedoa, Great Marbled Godwit, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor.
Amer. v. ii. p. 395.
Great Marbled Godwit, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 173.
Great Marbled Godwit, Limosa Fedoa, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p.
287; v. v. p. 590.