Class II. G O D W I T. 439 



Godwit, Yarwhelp, or Yar- Limofa grifea major. La 179. God* 

 wip. Wil. cm. 290. grande. wit, 



Raiifyn. av. 105. Barge grife. Briffbn au. V. 



Scolopax aegocephala. Lin* 272. Tab. 24. y%\ 2. 



j/^. 246. 2?r. Zoo/. 120. Tab, 



THIS fpecies weighs twelve ounces and a half; Descrip, 

 the length is fixteen inches ; the breadth 

 twenty-feven ; the bill is four inches long, turns 

 np a little, black at the end, the reft a pale pur- 

 ple: from the bill to the eye is a broad white flroke: 

 the feathers of the head, neck, and back, are of a 

 light reddifh brown, marked in the middle with a 

 dulky fpot : the belly and vent feathers white : the 

 tail regularly barred with black and white. 



The fix flrft quil-feathers are black ; their in- 

 terior ed^es of a reddifh brown : the legs in fome 

 are dufky, in others of a greyifh blue; which per- 

 haps may be owing to different ages : the exterior 

 toe is connected as far as the firlt joint of the 

 middle toe, with a ftrong ferrated membrane. The 

 male is diftinguifhed from the female by fome black 

 lines on the bread and throat ; which in the female 

 are wanting. 



Thefe birds are taken in the fens, in the fame 

 feafon, and in the fame manner with the ruffs and 

 reeves, and when fattened are efteemed a great de- 

 licacy, and fell for half a crown, or five fhillings 

 G g 3 a piece. 



