SpoN.- TR Bee, 
lensth from the bafe, the reft of the length rufous, croffed with two 
or three bars-of black ; but the four middle feathers are deep rufous, 
andthe two on each fide very pale; the two outermott feathers on 
each fide wholly white and black in alternate bars: the wing coverts 
black brown, {potted with rufous white; reft of the wing dufky black; 
every feather but the greater quills tipped with white: beneath the - 
wings beautifully croffed with white and dufky bars: the fore part of 
the neck is the fame as behind: the breaft, belly, and vent, croffed 
with numerous dufky bars, inclined to a zigzag fhape on the fides: 
legs pale blueifh brown, and bare above the knee for half an inch. 
This is a rare fpecies, and has not been met with more than three 
times to my. knowledge, nor does it appear to be at all plentiful in 
this kingdom, a circumftance which will apologize for defcribing it 
fo fully, from a recent one now in my collection, fhot in Suffolk, Sep- 
tember 1792. I have feen this very fpecies more than once brought 
from South America, and have every reafon to fuppofe that the Savanna 
Woodcock and this bird form together but one fpecies. 
Scolopax /Egocephala, Ind. Orn. ii. p, 719. 16. — 
— Belgica, Gmel. Sin. p. 663. 39. 
Rufticola, of Grutto, Sepp. og. pl. 28. ps 53. 
La grande Barge rouffe, P/. Enl. 916. 
Barbary Godwit, Shaw’s Trav. p. 255.—-Gen. Syz. v. p. 145-14. A. 
pH! S bird is about fixteen inches in length: bill nearly four inches 
long; dufky orange, with a black tip: head and neck as far as 
the breaft ferruginous: crown fpotted with dufky; from the noftrils 
through the eye, dufky white: belly, thighs, and vent, white; the 
breaft mottled with a few dufky fpots: back dufky brown, the mar- 
gins of the feathers ferruginous: the tail is even at the end, and the 
bafe of all but the two middle feathers are white, as are alfo the rail 
coverts: legs long and black. 
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