"Adult male in breeding plumage.--Above blackish mottled with pale chestnut-red; wing-coverts dark brown, with white edgings; many of the coverts tinged with chestnut, especially inner greater coverts; alula, primary-coverts, and quills blackish; secondaries brown, edged with white, a longitudinal, subterminal mark of white along inner web; innermost secondaries like the back; feathers of lower back and rump blackish with white edges; upper tail-coverts barred with black and white or chestnut and black; tail brown, tipped and barred with white, the bars sometimes tinged with chestnut; crown-feathers chestnut, streaked with blackish brown centers, narrower on hind neck; broad eyebrow chestnut; lores and sides of face chestnut with numerous blackish spots on lores; a whitish spot under eye; lower parts chestnut with blackish streaks on sides of upper breast; under wing-coverts white with indistinct, dusky brown spots; axillars white barred with dusky brown. 'Bill clear reddish for its basal half, blackish toward the terminal part, the base of the lower mandible paler; feet blackish brown; iris brown.' (Taczanowski.) Length, 395; wing, 220; tail, 77; culmen, 86; tarsus, 52; middle toe with claw, 36. "Adult female in breeding plumage.--Similar to the male, but not so entirely cinnamon-rufous below, and with remains of brown bars on the under surface, especially on the flanks. Length, 406; culmen, 109; wing, 240; tail, 82; tarsus, 58. "Young.--The young birds may be told from the adults in winter plumage by their more tawny color, and by the ashy gray shade on the throat and chest, as well as by the fulvescent bars and notches to the feathers of the upper surface." (Sharpe.) Winter plumage.--Above ashy brown with rusty shaft-lines; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts white with more or less hidden black arrow marks of dark brown, these taking the form of bars on longest coverts; below nearly pure white; slightly dusky on breast and with a few narrow shaft-lines on breast; under tail-coverts with broken, dusky bars; primaries blackish brown; wing-coverts and secondaries with broken, dusky bars; primaries blackish brown; coverts and secondaries gray with blackish shaft-lines and hoary edges. Birds taken in the Philippines in the spring are in the white and gray winter dress, but in the autumn (September) many individuals arrive in nearly perfect breeding plumage, while others are in mixed plumage, showing numerous light feathers among the dark and chestnut feathers of the summer dress. 104. LIMOSA LIMOSA (Linnæus). BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. Scolopax limosa Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 147. Limosa limosa Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1896), 24, 381; Hand-List (1899), 1, 159; Oates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 40; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 25. Limosa belgica Blanford, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1898), 4, 254, fig. 59 (head).