374 CLASS AVES. 



Godwit and Red Godwit, of Latham, See Albin. ij. 

 t. 70. Pen. Br. Zool. t. B. B. ; and young, Meyer, 1. 11. 

 The Black-tailed Godwit. Limosa ^gocephala. 

 Bonap. Amer. Orn. iij. t. Found in America and 

 Europe, 



These two birds are doubly as tall as the wood- 

 cock. The changes of their plumage have given 

 rise to several multiplications of species. The last 

 of them, in summer, covers the plains of North 

 Holland. Its cry is very shrill, like that of a she- 



goat. 



Marbled Godwit. Scol. Fedoa. Lin. Wils. Am. vii. 

 pi. Ivi. 4. 



Plumage above, in general, brown, streaked and 

 spotted with rufous- white ; vent, nearly white ; tail, 

 rufous. Hudson's Bay. 



The American Godwit. Pen. Edw. t. 137. The Hud- 



sonia and Marbled Godwit of Latham. Scolopax 

 Marmorata and Hudsonica, in the winter plumage. 

 Limicula Marmorata, Vieill. Gal. 243, is only the 

 female, or the male in summer plumage. See 

 Vieill. 



Terek Snipe. Scol. Terek ^ or Cinerea. Gm. 

 Guldenst. Nov. Act. Petrop. xix. pi. xix. 



Bill bending upwards ; from the base and feet, semi- 

 palmated ; above, wholly cinereous, middle of each 

 feather, brown ; under parts, white, but throat and 

 breast, streaked with ash-colour. Neighbourhood of 

 the Caspian. Seems a link between the snipes and 

 avosets. 



