SNIPE. i 45 



infects *. It is likewife met with in various parts of the conti- 

 nent of Euro-pe and dfia, as well as in America. 



La grande Barge rouffe, Brif. Orn. v. p. 284. 6. — Buf. Oif. vii. p. 505.— 1 , 



PI. Enl. 916. Vak.'a. 



Barbary Godwit, Shaw's Trav. p. 255. 



^TTHIS bird is fifteen inches long, and has a bill like the laft. Description. 



It is dufky on the upper parts j the feathers edged with ru- 

 fous: over the eyes a ftreak of rufous white: the throat and 

 neck are rufous : lower part of the back and rump white, 

 marked with dufky fpots : upper tail coverts and tail barred 

 black and white : under parts from the breaft white : under tail 

 coverts and fides marked with tranfverfe black fpots : thighs 

 plain : fome of the outer wing coverts edged at the ends with 

 white : quills black, with the fhafts white; the three firft marked 

 with a tranfverfe white fpot one third from the end : fecondaries 

 edged and tipped with rufous : legs greenifh brown. 



Said to inhabit England. It is probably a mere variety of the Place, 



laft. I have obferved them to vary much ; and this feems to 

 differ in fex : at leaft there are two birds in the Leverian Mu- 

 feum, which were there placed as male and female, and anfwer to 

 the defcription of thefe laft birds : one of them has the breaft of 

 a pure white, the other pale rufous. 



Cinereous<5odwit, Br. Zool. ii. N° 180. pi. 66. ClNFRF^nS C 



CIZE of the Greenjhank. Bill two inches and a half long, but Description. 

 thicker than in that bird : the head, neck, and back, va- 



* Br. Zool.— I have feen them in the London markets, in the winter. 



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