BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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breast, chestnut, the latter barred with blackish ; back and 

 scapulars, blackish-brown; feathers, barred and margined 

 with chestnut; wings, deep brown, with a plainly defined 

 white bar ; tail, white at base, black at terminal end ; 

 abdomen, whitish, with bars of dark brown; irides, hazel- 

 brown ; bill, deep brown, orange at base ; legs and feet, 

 black. Length, between eighteen and nineteen inches. 

 The adult female in summer is larger than the male, and 

 the colouration is much duller. 



Bai>taileb (Bofcwit 



THE Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa rufa, Brisson) is a common 

 spring and autumn migrant to the British Isles, occurring 

 also in winter. It inhabits the Northern and Western 



