. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . Limosa fedoa. This species breeds in the interior from the Missouri region northward.It occurs in winter south to Florida and Cuba, but is not abundant anywhereon the Atlantic coast. The eggs are described as being from three to four in number and of adull brownish ash color, blotched and mottled with gray and grayish brown. 202 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. LIMOSA H/EMASTICA {Linn.).Hudsonian Qodwit.. Adult m summer: Bill slightly curved up; top of the head dusky, showing pale brownstreaks
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. Hunting and fishing in Florida, including a key to the water birds known to occur in the state . Limosa fedoa. This species breeds in the interior from the Missouri region northward.It occurs in winter south to Florida and Cuba, but is not abundant anywhereon the Atlantic coast. The eggs are described as being from three to four in number and of adull brownish ash color, blotched and mottled with gray and grayish brown. 202 KEY TO THE WATER BIRDS OF FLORIDA. LIMOSA H/EMASTICA {Linn.).Hudsonian Qodwit.. Adult m summer: Bill slightly curved up; top of the head dusky, showing pale brownstreaks ; back black, the feathers spotted with tawny brown. Upper tail coverts white; chinwhitish dotted with dusky.; throat reddish brown streaked with brown; under parts dark rufousbrown, faintly and irregularly banded with black. Bill grayish yellow, dark brown along theridge of the upper mandible, and blackish towards the tips of both. Adiclt in winter: General plumage grayish; top of the head gray mottled with brown; backgray; some of the feathers tipped with dark brown and indistinctly edged with dull whitish;upper tail coverts white ; chin white; throat ash gray ; under parts grayish white. Length, 15.50; Wing, 8.30; Tarsus, 2.30; Bill, 3 to 3.40. Ranges in Eastern North America from the far North south to SouthAmerica. It is becoming less common every year, although at one time itwas an abundant species, during the migrations, on our coast. Breeds in the far North; the eggs are described as dark