444 LESSER GODWIT. Class II. 



1S1. Lesser. La Barge. Bclon a<v. 205. Fedoanoftrafecunda, the Stone 

 The fecond fort of God wit, Plover Rati fya. am, 105. 



the 7 'ot anus of Aldrov and ; Limofa, la Barge. Brijjon av. 

 called at Venice, Vetola. V. 262. 



Wil. orn. 293. Br. Zool. 120. 



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R. i?^y (for we are not acquainted with 

 Descrip. X VX this fpecies) defcribes it thus. Its weight is 

 nine ounces ; the length to the tail feventeen inches ; 

 to the toes twenty-one -, its breadth twenty-eight : 

 the bill like that of the former: the chin white, 

 tinged with red : the neck afh-colored ; the head of 

 a deep afh-color, whitifh about the eye; the back 

 of a uniform brownnefs, not fpotted like that of 

 the preceding : the rump encompaffed with a white 

 ring : the two middle feathers of the tail black : 

 the outmoft, efpecially on the outfide web, white 

 almoft to the tips ; in the reft the white part grew 

 lefs and lefs to the middlemoft. 



Befides thefe, Mr. Willughby mentions a third 

 fpecies, called in Cornwal the Stone Curlew -, but 

 defcribes it no farther than faying it has a fhorter 

 and flenderer bill than the preceding. 



Limofa; 



