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BLACK-TAILED GODWIT. 



COMMON GODWIT. GODWYJS". YAEWHELP. TAEWHIP. 



LESSEE GODWIT. JADEEKA SNIPE. 

 EED GODWIT. HUDSONIAN GODWIT. SHEIEKEB. 



Limosa melanura, LEISLER. TEMMINCK. 



" jEgocephala, FLEMING. 



" rufa major, BRISSON. 



Fedoa melanura, STEPHENS. 



Scolopax belgica, GMELIN. 



" JEgocephala, LINNAEUS. 



" Hudsonica, LATHAM ? 



" limosa, PENNANT. 



" Lapponica, BEWICK. 



JEgocephalus Bellonii, RAY. 



Limosa. Limus Mud. Melanura. Melas Black. OuraA tail. 



THIS species extends pretty generally, though unequally, 

 over Europe so far north as Iceland, Lapland, and Green- 

 land, and south again to Spain, Switzerland, Italy, and 

 Holland; Asia, to which continent Temminck assigns Japan 

 and the Sunda Isles as localities for it, as well as the vicinity 

 of Mount Caucasus and Persia; and Africa, about Tangiers, 

 Tunis, and other parts of the north. 



It most affects the countries that are nearest to the sea, 

 and attaches itself to moist and swampy places, low meadows, 

 where a rank vegetation prevails, and other such. 



In England it is generally distributed, though by no means 

 abundant. It breeds occasionally, though sparingly, in the 

 Cambridgeshire and Norfolk Fens, near Buckenham and Oby; 

 so it is also said to have done on the edge of Hatfield 

 Chase, near Thorne, Yorkshire. It is common about Breydon, 

 near Yarmouth, in Norfolk; it belongs also to the Northum- 

 brian, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire coasts. In Suffolk, two in 



