68 WOODCOCK. SNIPE. GODWIT. 



470. The female Woodcocic may be diftinguiflied from the male by a 



narrow ftripe of white along the lower part of the exterior web of the 

 outmoft feather of the wing. The fame part, in the outmoft feather of 

 the male, is elegantly and regularly fpotted with black and reddifh 

 white. In the baftard wing of each fex is a fmall pointed narrow fea- 

 ther, very elaftic, and much fought after by painters as a pencil. 



47 I, The Dusky Snipe is to be reckoned among the SwediJJj birds, one 



having been killed near Stockholm. — Mr. Osdman. - 



MARBLED Length nineteen inches. Bill orange, four inches long, black 



GODWIT. towards the tip : plumage on the upper parts of the body brown, 



marbled and fpotted with rufous white : cere and chin white : quills, 

 rufous cream-color, marked with minute brown fpecks : the whole of 

 the under parts of the body pale rufous ; the bread and fides very pale, 

 tranfverfely barred with dulky waved lines : vent rufous wliite : tail ru- 

 fous, croffed with fix or icY^n brown bars : legs black. 

 Inhabits Hudforis Bay. Communicated by Mr. Latham. 



„,rr,c^xTT.vT Length nearly feventeen inches: bill three,, bending a little 



HUDSONIAN ^ J . 



GODWIT. upwards ; the bafe half pale, the reft black : crown blackifh, fpotted 

 and ftreaked with dufky white : fides of the head, and back part of 

 the neck, nearly the fame, but paler : lore dufky : over the eye a white 

 ftreak : chin whitifli : back and fcapulars duflty brown, fpotted with 

 rufous white : leffer wing coverts brown ; in the middle paler, and 

 marked with a few fpots of white : larger coverts, plain afli-color : 

 quills black, with white fliafts, the bafes of them, from the fourth, white 

 for one-third of their length : rump white : the whole of the under 

 parts, from the chin to the vent, fine rufous bay, waved acrofs with 

 dufky lines : tail feathers white at the bafe, and dufky the refl of their 

 length : legs black. 

 Inhabits Uudjon's Bay with the laft. Communicated by Mr. Latham. 

 so The 



