142 



SNIP E. 



12. 



AMERICAN 

 GODWIT. 



'Description. 



JPla«e. 



Scoiopax fedoa, Lin. Syft. i. p. 244. 9. 



La Barge rouffe d'Araerique, Brif. Orn. v. p. 287- 7. 



de la Baye d'Hudfon, Buf. Oif. vii. p. 507. 



■Greater American Godwit, Edna, pi. 137. — Arft. Zaol. N° 371. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



CIZEof our Godwit: length fixteen inches. Bill fix inches 

 long; colour of it yellow, towards the point black: eyes 

 placed far back in the head : over the eye a white line : from 

 bill to eye a duiky line : beneath the throat white : head and neck 

 mottled with dufky and light brown : breafl: barred with black : 

 belly brown : back and wing coverts varied with rufty brown and 

 dufky.: quills ferruginous on the outer webs: tail barred light 

 brown and black : legs long, black, naked high above the knees : 

 the outer and middle toes connected to the firfl joint. 

 Inhabits Hudfon's Bay, where it is called a Curlew. 



'3- 

 RED GODWIT. 



Description. 



Scoiopax Lapponica, Lin. Syft. 1. p. 146. 15. — Faun. Suee. 174. — Brun. 



N° 16; — Muller, N° 186.— Phil. Tranf. vol. Ixii. p. 411. 

 La Barge rouffe, Brif. Orn. v. p 281. 5. pi. 25. fig. 1 — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 504. 



— PL Enl. 900. 

 Red-breafted Godwit, Edw. pi. 138.— Br. Zool. N° 181.pl. 77. — ArB. 



Zool. N° 372. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



ENGTH eighteen inches : weight 12 ounces. Bill three 



inches and three quarters, rather inclining upwards ; colour 



dufky, inclining to yellow next the head : the head, neck, breafr, 



and upper part of the back, are ferruginous, ftreaked with black, 



except the neck, which is plain : over the eyes a ftreak of a paler 



colour : 



