BLACK-TAILED fiODWIT. 567 



mark, and visits in considerable numbers various parts of 

 Scandinavia, particularly Lapland, and going even as far 

 north as Iceland and Greenland. 



On the European Continent it is most frequently seen in 

 spring and autumn. It is well known in Spain, and the 

 Zoological Society have received a male and a female in their 

 winter plumage from Tangiers, where they are said not to be 

 uncommon, besides some specimens from Tunis and other 

 localities in North Africa. In Switzerland, M. Schinz says 

 in his Fauna Helvetica, this species is occasionally seen on 

 its passage, and a pair may sometimes remain there and go 

 to nest, as a bird in perfect summer plumage has been taken. 

 It is seen at Genoa and in Italy in May and August, but 

 most numerous in August on its return from the North. 

 Messrs. Dickson and Ross sent the Zoological Society a 

 young bird of the year from Trebizond ; M. Hohenacker, a 

 Russian Naturalist, includes it among the birds obtained in 

 the vicinity of the Caucasus, and M. Temminck says it is 

 found in Japan and on the Isles of Sunda. 



This Godwit, in the winter plumage, has the beak black 

 for one third of its length, the basal portion pale yellowish 

 brown ; the iridcs hazel ; before and over the eye a white 

 patch ; the whole of the head and neck ash brown ; the 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, back, and tertials, ash brown, the 

 coverts and tertials with lighter coloured edges ; primary 

 quill-feathers dusky black, the shafts Avliite, with some white 

 at the base of all beyond the second, forming a bar across 

 the wing ; basal third of the tail-feathers white, the terminal 

 two-thirds black, except the outer tail-feather on each side, 

 which have a larger proportion of white ; chin, breast, and 

 belly, light greyish ash ; vent and under tail-coverts white ; 

 legs and toes dusky brown, the claws black. 



The whole length of a female seventeen inches ; of the 

 beak alone four inches. From the carpal joint to the end of 



