686 scoLOPAcnm 



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 irides 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 white, 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 is seventeen inches; of 

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

 end of the first quill-feather, which is the longest in the 

 wing, nine inches ; length of the tarsus three inches ; of 

 the naked part above, one inch and three-quarters. 



The male in summer has the beak black for half its 

 length from the point, the basal half pale orange ; irides 

 hazel ; from the gape to the eye a dark streak produced by 

 small black spots on feathers of a reddish brown ; over this 

 and around the eye a ring of pale brown ; top of the head 

 and the ear-coverts reddish brown streaked with black ; 

 the neck all round, before and behind, a reddish fawn 

 colour ; the feathers on the back in spring become dark 

 brown, almost black at the base and on the centre ; the 

 ends, which were of an ash colour in winter, become rufous 

 by degrees till the darker feathers with reddish margins 

 pervade the whole of the back : the wing-primaries are 

 more decidedly black, the white-coloured portion more 



