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white ; front and sides of the neck, and all the under parts, 

 reddish-brown ; the back and scapulars are dusky, with edges 

 and oval spots of orange ; rump and tail-coverts white, with 

 the centres of each feather hair-brown ; some of the tail- 

 coverts edged with orange-brown ; wing-coverts cinereous, 

 with darker colouring on the middle of the feathers, and white 

 edges. The feathers of the belly and vent edged with white; 

 the flanks and under tail-coverts streaked with dusky. The 

 outer webs of the quill-feathers are black, the inner are dusky 

 and mottled with white on their edges ; their shafts white. 

 The tail is barred with dusky and reddish-white ; the beak 

 is flesh-red at the base, its middle clove-brown, and the tip 

 black. The legs are lead coloured ; iris dusky. 



The winter plumage differs much, and must be described as 

 follows : — The top of the head, the neck and breast are greyish 

 white, streaked with dusky ; the back and scapulars cinereous, 

 the edges of the feather palest ; the shaft and centres of the 

 feathers slate coloured ; wing-coverts white, the centres of the 

 feathers dusky. The quills are the same as in the summer 

 plumage ; the tail transversely barred with dusky and very 

 pale grey, approaching to white. Throat, belly, and vent 

 white, tinged with yellow ocre, and pale grey ; the thighs 

 and under tail -coverts streaked with dusky. 



The entire length of the Bar- tailed Godwit is seventeen 

 inches and a half; the beak measures three inches ; the wing, 

 from the carpus to the tip, eight inches ; the tarsus is one 

 inch eleven lines ; the middle toe one inch five lines. 



