Class II. RED GODWIT SNIPE. 51 



" The cinereous godwit is represented in In- 

 dian drawings." J. L. 



Scolopax lapponica. Sc. rostro La Barge rousse. Hist, d^ois. 4. Red. 



flavescente, pedibus nigris, vii. 504. PL Enl. QOO. 



subtus tola rufo ferruginea. Edwards, tah. 138. 



Lath. Ind. orn. 7 18. id. Syn. Faun. Suec. sp. 174. 



V. 142. Gtn. Lin. 667. Br. Zool. add. plates. 



Limosa rufa. BrissoJi av. v. Arct. Zool. ii. 168. 



281. fab. 25. f. 1. 



XHE red godwit is superior in size to the Descrip- 

 common kind ; the bill is three inches three- 

 quarters long, not quite strait, but a little re- 

 flected upwards ; the lower half black, the up- 

 per yellow ; the head, neck, breast, sides, sca- 

 pulars, and upper part of the back, are of a 

 bright ferruginous color ; the head marked with 

 oblong dusky lines ; the neck is plain ; the breast, 

 sides, scapulars, and back varied with trans- 

 verse black bars, and the edges of the feathers 

 with a pale cinereous brown ; the middle of the 

 belly is white, marked sparingly with similar spots . 

 The lesser coverts of the wings are of a light 

 brown ; the greater tipt with white ; the shafts 

 and lower interior webs of the greater quil 

 feathers are white ; the exterior webs and upper 



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