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LiMOSA, Bechst.(l) 



The Godwits have a straight beak, longer than the Snipes, and 

 sometimes even slightly arcuated near the top. The nasal groove 

 extends close to the tip, which is blunt and somewhat depressed; no 

 third groove or punctation on its surface. The external toes are pal- 

 mated at base. Their form is more slender, and their legs longer 

 than those of Snipes; they frequent salt marshes and the sea-shore. 

 Scol. leucophdea, Lath., and laponica, Gm.; Barge aboyeuse; 

 the young, Brit. Zool, pi. xiii; Briss. V, pi. xxiv, f. 2; the adult 

 in summer plumage, Enl. 900.(2) (The Common Godwit.) In 

 winter, a deep brown-grey, the feathers edged with white; the 

 breast, a brown-grey; whitish above; rump, white striped with 

 brown. Sec. In summer it is red, with a brown back. The tail 

 is always striped with white and black. 



Scol. aegocephala and belgica, Gm. ; Limosa mclanura, Leisler; 

 in winter plumage, Enl. 874; in that of summer, lb. 916. (The 

 Black-tailed Godwit.) In winter a cinereous grey, browner on 

 the back; white belly; in summer, head, neck, and breast, red; 

 the mantle, brown spotted with red; beneath, striped with 

 brown, red and white bands; tail always black, edged with 

 white at the tip. These two birds are double the size of the 

 Woodcock, and their changes of plumage have occasioned va- 

 rious multiplications of the species. The last, during the sum- 

 mer, covers the plains of New Holland. Its cry is very shrill 

 and resembles that of a Goat.(3) 



Calidris, Cuv. Tringa, Temm.(4) 

 The bill of the Sandpipers is depressed at the end, and the nasal 



riety represented, Enl. 922. N.B. This last plate is the only one that gives a cor- 

 rect representation of the beak peculiar to this little subgenus. Add, a very dis- 

 tinct species from Urazil, Rhynckasa Jiilarea, Val., Bullet, des Sc. de Ferussac, 

 0.2. 



(1) Vieillot has changed this name into Limicula, Gal. 243. 



(2) Gmelin has made the young of this bird a variety of the following species, 

 and quotes the fig. of Brisson, by the name of Scol. glottis, which is a Ruff. 

 The adult is his Scol. laponica. The Ldmosa Meyeri, Leisl. and Temm., is this 

 species in its winter livery, and lAm. rufa, the same in its summer plumage. 



(S) Add Scol. fedoa, L. ; Wils. VII, pi. Ivi, 4, or the Limicula marmorata, Vieill. 

 Galer. 243. We might distinguish the Scol. terek or Sc. dnerea, Gm.? Guldenst., 

 Nov. Act. Petrop., XIX, pi. xix, whose beak is curved upwards, and whose feet 

 are semi-palmated. It leads to the Recur virostres. 



(4) Calidris, " an ash coloured and spotted bird, frequenting rivers and 

 woods," Aristotle. Brisson has applied it to the Great Sandpiper. 



