138 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



feathers were fully coloured with the red of the 

 breeding-plumage. This red plumage remains till 

 the autumn, when it is replaced, after the moult, by 

 the more sombre and less handsome grey of the 

 winter plumage. Though the Bartailed Godwit goes 

 far north to breed, not breeding much nearer than 

 Lapland and the north of Norway and Sweden, both 

 old and young soon show themselves again in the 

 Channel Islands on their return journey, as I shot 

 a young bird of the year in Herm the last week in 

 August. Most of the autumn arrivals, however, 

 soon pass on to more southern winter quarters, only 

 a few remaining very late, perhaps quite through 

 the winter, as I have one shot in Guernsey as late 

 as the 14th of December ; this one, I need hardly 

 say, is in full winter plumage, and of course 

 presents a most striking difference to the one shot in 

 Herm in May. 



The Bartailed Godwit is included in Professor 

 Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in 

 Guernsey. It is, however, as I have shown, 

 perhaps more common in Herm, and it also occurs 

 in Alderney. There is a series of these in the 

 Museum in change and breeding-plumage. 



The Blacktailed Godwit is also included in 

 Professor Ansted's list, but I have never seen the 

 bird in the Islands or been able to glean any 

 information concerning it, and there is no specimen 

 in the Museum. 



