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being on the two outside feathers; chin white; front 
and sides of the neck, the breast and flanks pale 
ash-grey, rather darkest on the sides of the breast ; 
legs, toes and claws dark, almost if not quite black. 
This agrees very nearly with Yarrell’s description of 
the mature bird in winter plumage. 
The young birds of the year in their first autumn 
are tinged with red on the neck and ash-brown on 
the under part of the neck and breast. The beak of 
both the Godwits, the present species and the Bar- 
tailed, is slightly curved upwards, and there is a 
partial web between the two outer toes. 
The eggs are pear-shaped; light olive-brown, 
blotched and spotted with darker brown. ‘This de- 
scription of Yarrell’s agrees very closely with an egg 
in my collection, which I believe to be a Blacktailed 
Godwit’s, except that the marks on mine are of two 
shades, one lighter than the other. 
BarraireD Gopwit, Limosa rufa. This bird (the 
“Common Godwit” of Bewick, the ‘ Cinereous 
Godwit” of that author being also the same species 
only in its younger plumage) is much more common, 
not only in this county but throughout England, 
than the Blacktailed Godwit. It occurs from time 
to time in various parts of the county, especially in 
the marsh and on the sea-coast, but itis not quite 
confined to those localities, the last that came under 
my notice having been killed in some water-meadows 
near Crowcombe, on the 19th of January, 1867: it 
