466 RED, AND COMMON GODWIT. 



Rip, ^^^ Godwit, Br. Zoo/, ii, N" iSl—EJiu. 138.— Scolopax Lapponica, Fautt. 



5/«f. N° 174. — Ph.Tranf. hiW, i\.l I. — Latham, \i\. 

 La Barge rouffe, Ds Buffon, vii, 304.^?/.. Enl. 900. — Lev. Mus. 



CN. With a Bill three inches three quarters long, reflefting a little 

 upward j yellow near the bafe 5 diifky towards the end : head,, 

 neck, breaft, and upper part of the back, ferruginous, and ftreaked 

 with black, excepting the neck, which is plain : lower part of the 

 back white : leffer coverts of the wings cinereous brown : exterior 

 webs of the primaries black ; the lower parts white : the lower part 

 of the tail white ; the upper black ; the tips white : the legs dufky." 

 ■ Length, to the tip of the tail, one foot fix inches. Extent two 

 it.tt four. Weight twelve ounces. Varies much in colors, accord- 

 ing to age. 

 ^lACE. Is common to the north oi Europe and of America. Very nume- 



rous, in fummer time, in the fens oi Hudfon's Bay, where they breed,,, 

 and then retire. Appear about the C«_/^/<2« fea in the fpring j but 

 never ip Sil/iria, nor in tlie north of AJia. 



J73. Common. Godwit,^r. Za<j/. ii. N° 179. — Caii^y, App.— Latham, Hi. 



La Barge Aboyeufe, De Buffon, vii. 501.— P/. Ed. 876.— Lev. Mus.— Bl.. Mus.. 



CN. With the bill turning a little up; four inches long; pale purple 

 at the bafe ; dufky at the end : head,, neck, back, and coverts 

 of the wings, of a very light brown, with a brown fpot in the 

 middle of each feather: primaries dufky; inner webs of a reddifh. 

 brown: tail barred with black and white: belly and vent white :- 

 legs dufky j in forae of a greyiih blue. In Size fomewhat inferior tQ.> 

 the lafl.. 

 ^lAfiSj.. Comraon.to the. north of Europe^ 4fi^> ^^^ America,. 



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