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LIMOSA RUFA. BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 



GODWIT. YARWHELP. STONE PLOYER. POOR WILLIE. 



Fig. 21. 



Scolopax Lapponica. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 246. 



Scolopax Lapponica. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 718. 



Scolopax leucophcea. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 719. 



Red-breasted Snipe. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Common Godwit. Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Limosa rufa. Temm. Man. d' Ornith. II. 668. 



Limosa rufa. Bar-tailed Godwit. Flem. Brit. Anim 107. 



Red Godwit. Limosa rufa. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Ornith. II. 9 



Limosa rufa. Bar-tailed Godwit. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 202. 



Limosa rufa. Bonap. Comp. List, 52. 



Bill about four inches long, bent upwards ; male about 

 fifteen, female seventeen inches long ; tarsus about two itiches 

 and two-twelfths; bill flesh-coloured, dusky in its terminal 

 half ; feet greyish-blue; toes darker ; claws black, short, 

 blunt, that of the middle toe loithout serrature. In winter 

 the head and neck pale grey, with small brownish-grey 

 streaks; a broad band over the eye, the throat, breast, and 

 other lower parts white; feathers of the fore part of the back 

 and scapulars grey, with a central brown streak; hind part 



