690 SCOLOPACIDJE. 



I believe this Godwit is seldom found in Lapland, nor 

 do I find it included among the Birds of Iceland or of 

 Greenland in any catalogue, unless it has been confounded 

 with the Black-tailed Godwit. It is found on the shores 

 of the Caspian Sea ; it was obtained by M. Menetries, the 

 Russian naturalist, on the scientific expedition to the Cau- 

 casus, and M. Temminck says it is found in India, at Java, 

 and Timor. 



The egg of this Godwit is figured by Dr. Thienemann, 

 and I have in my collection one egg obtained in Yarmouth 

 market, which exactly resembles the coloured figure of the 

 egg in the work referred to. Two eggs figured by Mr. 

 Hewitson measure two inches in length by one inch and a 

 half in breadth, of a pale yellowish wood brown, speckled, 

 spotted, and blotched with clove brown and umber brown, 

 very like those of the Black-tailed Godwit, which are 

 well known, but a little smaller in size, as might be 

 expected. 



The food of this species is aquatic insects, worms, and 

 molluscs. In winter these birds are seen on various parts 

 of our sea-coast. At this time of the year the beak is 

 black at the point, the basal portion pale reddish brown ; 

 irides dusky brown; top of the head and back of the 

 neck ash brown, each feather with a central streak of 

 darker brown along the line of the shaft; back and 

 scapulars dark brown, edged with pale wood brown ; all 

 the wing-coverts, secondaries, and tertials, dark brown, 

 with greyish white edges ; primary quill -feathers dusky 

 black, with white shafts, the shorter ones edged with 

 white ; rump and upper tail-coverts white, barred with 

 brown ; tail-feathers barred throughout their whole length 

 with dark brown, and greyish white in nearly equal 

 breadth ; neck in front ash brown ; breast, belly, and 

 vent, white ; under tail-coverts white, with only one or 



