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the head, neck, and upper part of the breaft, of a deep cream- 

 colour, paleft under the chin : lower parts of the neck behind 

 white : back black: the under parts from the bread pure white: 

 the fir ft and third order of wing coverts, with the outer part of 

 the wing between, and the greater quills, are black : the middle 

 coverts, and fome of the fecondaries, white ; feveral of the laft 

 tinged with afh-colour : the legs and thighs together are above 

 eight inches in length, colour dufky : feet femi-palmated, the 

 webs bordering the toes for a confiderable way j the hind toe 

 placed very high up, and fhort. 

 Place". Inhabits North America; and was found by Damper in Shark's 



Bay, on the coaft of New Holland. 



3- Scolopax alba, Lin. Syfi. i. p. 147. 17. 



WHITE AV. La Barge blanclie> Bri j_ 0rn v p- ZQOi s.__£,^. O//. vii. p. 50S.— 



PI. Enl. S75. 

 White Godwit, Edtv. pi. 139. 



Description. CIZE of the Red Godwit : length fourteen inches and a quarter. 

 Bill more than three inches in length, and turns greatly up- 

 wards, as in the Scooping Avofet ; the colour of it orange, with 

 the point black : general colour of the plumage white, except 

 the under wing coverts, which are pale brown: the edge of the 

 wing the whole length, the greater quills, and tail, white, with a 

 tinge of yellow : the wings exceed the tail a trifle in length : the 

 legs are pretty long, and of a deep brown : the toes divided. 

 Place. The above was fent from Hudfori 's Bay, and, from the figure, 



has every appearance of an Avojet : however, in Edwards's plate 

 the toes appear cloven to the bottom ; a circumftance feeming to 



overturn 



