168 BAY-BIEDS. 



feathers barred with brown ; scapulars and fore part 

 of tVie back brown, the feathers barred and spotted 

 with black and white ; primaries blackish-brown, the 

 shaft of the outer brownish- white, whiter towards the 

 tip, the rest dark-brown ; secondaries margined with 

 white ; hind part of the back brownish-grey ; tail 

 barred with greyish-brown, white at the tip ; legs, 

 feet, and toes, yellow ; claws black. Length, ten 

 inches and three-quarters ; wing, six. Young with 

 the legs greenish — and by those who have not recog- 

 nised it as the young of the year, I have heard the 

 propriety of its name questioned." — G-iraud. 



GODWIT. 



Grenus Limosa. 



Generic Distinctions. — Bill very long, a little re- 

 curved from the middle, rather slenfler, and with the 

 lower mandible the shorter. Wings long and very 

 acute ; tail short and even ; legs long ; toes four, and 

 rather slender, the hind one being small and the 

 middle toe the longest ; anterior toes connected at 

 the base by webs, the outer web being much the 

 larger. 



MAELIIf. 



Great Marbled G-odwit. 

 Limosa Fedoa, Linn. 

 Scohpax Fedoa, Wils. 

 This is the gentlest and most abundant of the 



