Identifier: CompanionGoulds00Digg (find matches)
Title: Companion to Gould's Handbook; or, Synopsis of the birds of Australia. Containing nearly one-third of the whole, or about 220 examples, for the most part from the original drawings
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Diggles, Silvester Gould, John, 1804-1881. Handbook to the birds of Australia
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Brisbane, Thorne & Greenwell
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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LIMOSA UROPYGIALIS Ba-rred xumpeol G-odiwit LIMOSA UEOPYGIALIS. (Barred-rwnvped Godwit.) All the upper surface brownish grey—the centres of the feathers dark, and the edges whitish; primaries, brown ; rump, upper tail coverts,and tail conspicuously barred with white and brown; throat and abdomen, white; neck and breast, brownish grey; under wing covertsand flanks, barred with brown and white ; tertiaries, edged with white on both webs—the centres, dark brown; bill, yellow, tipped withbrown ; irides, dark brown ; legs, brownish black. Length, 17 inches ; wing, 8f ; tail, 3 ; bill, 4i; tarsus, 2i ; midtoe, 1;. The present species is almost identical with the Limosa Rufa of Europe and Asia, but may be at once discriminated by theconspicuous markings or bars on the rump and upper tail coverts, the Bar-tailed Grodwit having those portions perfectly white in its winterplumage; in other respects the birds are quite similar, and the singular variations in the length of the bill in differe

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