98 GRALLATORES. LIMOSA. GODWIT. 



Young. The young birds, previous to the first moulting, have the 

 crown of the head blackish-brown ; each feather being 

 margined with pale reddish-brown. The neck and 

 breast are of an ash-grey colour, tinged with reddish- 

 brown. The eye streak, chin, the bases of the caudal 

 and quill feathers, the belly, abdomen, upper and under 

 tail coverts are white. The back and scapulars brown- 

 ish-black, each feather being margined with reddish- 

 brown. Wing coverts ash-grey, margined and termi- 

 nated by reddish-white. 



RED GODWIT. 



LIMOSA RUFA, Briss. 

 PLATE XXII. Fig. 1. 2. 



Limosa rufa, Briss. Orn. 5. 281. No. 5. t. 25. f. 1 Leister, Nacht. zu. 



Bechst. Naturg. Deut. Heft 2. 162 Flem. Br. Anim. 1.107. sp. 151. 



Fedoa rufa, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 77. but the figure that of the Black. 



tailed Godwit. 



La Barge rousse, Buff. Ois. 7. 504 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 668. 

 La Barge aboyeuse, ou d Queue raye', Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 488. 

 Scolopax Lapponica, Linn. Syst. 1. 246. 15 GmeL Syst. 1. 667 Lath. 



Ind. Orn. 2-718. sp. 15. 

 Red Godwit, Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. 80 Shaw's Zool. 12. 77. but not 



the figure Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 107. sp. 151. 



Female as- f Fedoa Meyeri, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 75. 

 sumingsum- < Barge Meyer, Temm. Man. 1 ed. 434. 

 mer plumage. (Meyer's God wit, Shaw's Zool. 12. 75. 



f Fedoa pectoralis, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 79. 

 Male. Sum- J Red-breasted Godwit, ib. 

 mer plumage, "j Red-breasted Snipe, Mont. Ornith. Diet. Sup. with a figure, but not 



^ the synonyms Id. in Trans, of Linn. Soc. 9. 198. 



! Scolopax leucophaea, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 719. 17. , 

 Limosa grisea major, Briss. Orn. 5. 272. t. 24. 

 Common Godwit, Br. Zool. 2. 179 Arct. ZooL 2. 373 Lath. Syn. 5 

 144. 15 Id. Sup. 245. Bewick's Br. Birds, 2. 78 Mont. Ornith. 

 Diet. 1. but with many of the synonyms of Limosa melanura. 

 Grey Godwit, Lewin's Br. Birds, 4. pi. 161. 



PROVINCIAL. Yarwhelp, Yarwhip, Poor Willie, Godwyn. 



THIS species, in its general appearance, greatly resembles 

 the preceding, with which indeed, in some of its changes, it 

 has frequently been confounded. It may, however, be al- 



