442 REDGODWIT. Class. II. 



REOUS. 



1S0. Cine- / ■ \ HIS fpecies was mot near Spalding, and 

 X the defcription communicated to me by the 

 Rev. Doctor Buckworth. 



The bill was two inches and a half long. The 

 head, neck, and back variegated with afh- color and 

 white : the tail (lightly barred with cinereous. 

 The throat and bread white : the laft marked 

 with a few am-colored fpots. The legs long, 

 flender, and afh-colored. 



This was about the fize of my Green- Jhanks : ap- 

 proaches it nearly in colors : but the bill was fo 

 much thicker, as to form a fpecific diftinction. 



I Si. Red. Scolopax Lapponica. Lin.fyji. Faun. Suec. fp. 174. 

 246. Br. Zoo/, add. plates. 



Descrip, ? a ^HE red godwit is fuperior in fize to the 

 I common kind : the bill is three inches three- 

 quarters long -, not quite ftrait, but a little reflected 

 upwards ; the lower half black, the upper yellow : 

 the head, neck, breafr, fides, fcapulars, and up- 

 per part of the back, are of a bright ferrugi- 

 nous color: the head marked with oblong dufky 

 lines : the neck is plain : the breaft, fides, fcapu- 

 lars, and back varied with tranfverfe black bars, 



and 



