BRITISH BIRDS. 



THE RED GODWIT. 



BLACK TAILED GODWIT. 

 SUMMER DRESS. 



(Limosa Melanura, Leisl. Barge a quetie noir, 

 Temm.) 



THIS bird measures eighteen inches in length, 

 and weighs about twelve ounces. The bill is 

 nearly four inches long, slightly turned upwards, 

 dark at the tip, and dull yellowish red towards the 

 base. The predominant colour of the head, upper 

 part of the shoulders, breast, and sides, is bright 

 ferruginous or rusty red, streaked on the head with 

 brown, and on the breast and sides barred or 

 marbled with dusky, cinereous, and white; neck 

 plain dull rusty red. The back, scapulars, greater 



VOL. II. P 



