Class 11. GODWIT SNIPE. 47 



Scolopax ^gocephala. Sc. ros- Scolopax aegocephala. Gm. 2. Godwit. 



tro flavo-rubente, pedibus vi- Lin. 667. 



rescentibus, capite colloque Limosa grisea major. La 



rufescentibus, remigibus tri- grande Barge grise. Bris- 



bus nigris basi albis. Lath. son av. v. 272. Tal\ 24. 



Ind.0rn.7ig. id. Si/n.v. 145. Jig. 2. Hist. dois. vii. 507. 



Godwit, Yarwhelp, or Yar- PL Enl. 876. 



wip. Wil. orn. 2Q0. Br. Zool. 120. Tab. B. Arcf. 



Rail Syn. av. 103. Zool. ii. 169. 



X HIS species weighs twelve ounces and a half; Descrip- 

 the length is sixteen inches ; the breadth twenty- 

 seven. The bill is four inches long, turns up a 

 little, is black at the end, the rest a pale purple; 

 from the bill to the eye is a broad white stroke ; 

 the feathers of the head, neck, and back, are 

 of a light reddish brown, marked in the middle 

 with a dusky spot; the belly and vent feathers 

 are white; the tail regularly barred with black 

 and white. The six first quil feathers are black; 

 their interior edges of a reddish brown; the legs 

 in some are dusky, in others of a greyish blue ; 

 which perhaps may be owing to a difference of 

 age; the exterior toe is connected as far as the 

 first joint of the middle toe, with a strong ser- 

 rated membrane. The male is distinguished from 

 the female by some black lines on the breast and 

 throat, which in the female are wanting*. 



* In the two specimens, male and female, in the late Leverian 

 museum, one had a white, the other a pale rufous breast J. L. 



