BLACK-TAILED GODWIT SHV 
south-eastern counties of Hngland. Nowadays it appears 
but as a passing migrant in spring and autumn, a few 
stragglers remaining until the winter." It occurs most 
often during the southern migration in August and September, 
and again in April and May, on its passage northward to 
breed. North of the coast of Yorkshire, its visits become 
scanty and irregular. 
In Scotland it is seldom observed. Recently, September 
12th, 1905, a specimen was obtained at the Ythan estuary, 
Aberdeenshire (G. Sim, ‘ Zoologist,’ 1905, p. 466). Mr. 
Saunders mentions one obtained at Loch Spynie in the 
autumn of 1878, and another on Westray, Orkneys, on 
September 27th, 1894; Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides, is 
visited sometimes in spring. Myr. Harvie-Brown mentions 
one or perhaps two recently obtained in the Outer Hebrides 
(‘ Avifauna Of The Outer Hebrides,’ 1888-1902. Ann. Scot. 
Nat. Hist., 1902-1903). 
Ireland is probably visited by small numbers of this 
species annually in autumn. At other seasons of the year 
records are exceptional. Mr. Ussher mentions one taken 
in June on the Moy estuary, co. Mayo, and a pair in July 
in co. Longford. My. Warren records a few specimens seen 
or obtained in nuptial plumage on the Mayo coast (‘ Birds 
of Ireland,’ p. 807, also ‘ Irish Naturalist,’ 1903, p. 112). In 
the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1902 2p. o'6;; Mon Et: Coburn states that 
he received a female in full winter- plumage from Limerick. 
This is the larger and more elegantly shaped of the two 
species of Godwits. In its general habits it resembles its 
congener. 
Flight. —On the wing it displays great power and 
velocity, indulging in aérial evolutions no less wonderful 
than those performed by the last species. The broad white 
band on the tail is very evident as the bird flies low over 
the dark sands. 
Voice.—The alarm-cry, heard in autumn on the coast, is 
of a somewhat musical and whistling character; it may 
be syllabled chii-tée-chiio, chii-tée-chiio. 
Food —This consists mainly of marine worms, insects, 
and small shell-fish. 
' Tn the ‘Zoologist,’ 1905, p- 70, the Rev. Julian Tuck mentions that he 
procured a female. specimen “in almost complete winter Tae from 
a game-dealer’s shop in Bury; the bird was obtained from Lynn. 
