BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 641 



OR A LLA TORES. SCOLOPA CIDJE. 



THE BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 



Limosa rufa. 



Scolopax cegocepliala, 



Godwit Snipe, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 47. 



Common Godwit, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



novel)oracensis, Red breasted Snipe, Supplt. 



' BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 61. 



cegocephala, The Godwit, 64. 



Limosa rufa, Bar-tailed Godwit, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 107. 



Red SELBV, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 98. 



Bar-tailed JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 202. 

 GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xv. 



Barge rousse, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 668. 



THE BAR-TAILED GODWIT is in its habits in this country 

 very similar to the Black-tailed Godwit last described, with 

 two exceptions ; the Bar-tailed Godwit very rarely, if ever, 

 remains to breed, and more frequently stops with us through 



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