98 GRALLATORES. LIMOSA. Gopwit. 
Young. The young birds, previous to the first moulting, have the 
crown of the head blackish-brown ; each feather being 
margined with pale reddish-brown. The neck and 
breast are of an ash-grey colour, tinged with reddish- 
brown. The eye streak, chin, the bases of the caudal 
and quill feathers, the belly, abdomen, upper and under 
tail coverts are white. The back and scapulars brown- 
ish-black, each feather beg margined with reddish- 
brown. Wing coverts ash-grey, margined and termi- 
nated by reddish-white. 
RED GODWIT. 
Limosa rurd, Briss. 
PLATE XXIL. Fig. 1. 2. 
Limosa rufa, Briss. Orn. 5. 281. No. 5. t. 25. f 1.—Leisler, Nacht. zu. 
Bechst. Naturg. Deut. Heft 2. 162.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1.107. sp. 151. 
Fedoa rufa, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 77. but the figure that of the Black- 
tailed Godwit. 
La Barge rousse, Buff: Ois. 7. 504.—Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 668. 
La Barge aboyeuse, ou a Queue rayé, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 488. 
Scolopax Lapponica, Linn. Syst. 1. 246. 15.—Gmel. Syst. 1.',667.—Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 2. 718. sp. 15. 
Red Godwit, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. 80.—Shaw’s Zool. 12. 77. but not 
the figure.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 107. sp. 151. 
Womale ae: { Fedoa Meyeri, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 75. 
sumingsum- ~ Barge Meyer, Temm. Man. | ed. 434. 
mer plumage. ( Meyer's Godwit, Shaw’s Zool. 12. 75. 
Fedoa pectoralis, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 79. 
Male. Sum- ) Red-breasted Godwit, ib. 
mer plumage. ) Red-breasted Snipe, Mont. Ornith. Dict. Sup. with a figure, but not 
the synonyms.—Id. in Trans. of Linn. Soc. 9. 198. 
Scolopax leucophzea, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 719.17. 
Limosa grisea major, Briss. Orn. 5. 272. t. 24. 
Young, and Common Godwit, Br. Zool. 2. 179.—Arct. Zool. 2. 373.—Lath. Syn. 5 
ea rey 144. 15.—Id. Sup. 245.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. 78.—Mont. Ornith. 
Dict. 1. but with many of the synonyms of Limosa melanura. 
Grey Godwit, Lewin’s Br. Birds, 4. pl. 161. 
ProvinciaL.—Yarwhelp, Yarwhip, Poor Willie, Godwyn. 
Tus species, in its general appearance, greatly resembles 
the preceding, with which indeed, in some of its changes, it 
has frequently been confounded. It may, however, be al- 
