GRALLATORIZ. 387 
Limosa, Bechst.(1) 
The Godwits have a straight beak, longer than the Snipes, and 
sometimes even slightly arcuated near the top. The nasal groove 
extends close to the tip, which is blunt and somewhat depressed; no 
third groove or punctation on its surface. The external toes are pal- 
mated at base. Their form is more slender, and their legs longer 
than those of Snipes; they frequent salt marshes and the sea-shore. 
Scol. leucophzea, Lath., and laponica, Gm.; Barge aboyeuse; 
the young, Brit. Zool. pl. xiii; Briss. V, pl. xxiv, f.2; the adult 
in summer plumage, Enl. 900.(2) (The Common Godwit.) In 
winter, a deep brown-grey, the feathers edged with white; the 
breast, a brown-grey; whitish above; rump, white striped with 
brown, &c. In summer it is red, with a brown back. The tail 
is always striped with white and black. 
Scol. ceegocephala and belgica, Gm.; Limosa melanura, Leisler; 
in winter plumage, Enl. 874; in that of summer, Ib. 916. (The 
Black-tailed Godwit.) In winter a cinereous grey, browner on 
the back; white belly; in summer} head, neck, and breast, reds 
the mantle, brown spotted with red; beneath, striped with 
brown, red and white, bands; tail always black, edged with 
white at the tip. These two birds are double the size of the 
Woodcock, and their changes of plumage have occasioned va- 
’ rious multiplications of the species. The last, during the sum- 
mer?, covers the plains of New Holland. Its cry is very shrill 
4 and resembles that of a Goat.(3) 
so) **%\ Caupris, Cuv.—Trinea, Temm.(4) 
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tiety represented, Enl. 922. N.B. This last plate is the only one that gives a cor- 
rect representation of the beak peculiag to this little subgenus. Add, a very dis- 
tinct species from Brazil, Dhipachand lara Val., Bullet. des Sc. de Ferussac, 
Gand. ; 
§ (1) Vieillot has changed this name into Limrcuza, Gal. 243. 
(2) Gmelin has made the young of this bird a variety of the following species, 
- and quotes the fig. of Brisson, by the name of Svol. glottis, which is a Ruff. 
The adult is his Scol. laponica. The Limosa Meyeri, Leisl. and Temm., is this 
species in its winter livery, and Lim. rufa, the same in its summer plumage. oh 
(3) Add Scol. fedoa, L.; Wils. VII, pl. lvi, 4, or the Limicula marmorata, Vieill. 
Galer. 243. We might distinguish the Scol. terek or Sc. cinerea, Gm.; Guldenst., 
Noy. Act. Petrop., XIX, pl. xix, whose beak is curved upwards, and whose feet 
are semi-palmated. It leads to the Recurvirostres. ‘i 
(4) Calidris, ‘an ash coloured and spotted bird, frequenting rivers and 
woods,” Aristotle. Brisson has applied it to the Great Sandpiper. 
