Cuass II. GODWIT SNIPE. 
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Scolopax Mepcephalal Se. ros- ~ Scolopax sgocephala. Gm. 2. Gopwit. 
__ tro flavo-rubente, pedibus vi- Lin. 667. 
rescentibus, capite collogue Limosa grisea major. La 
rufescentibus, remigibus tri- grande Barge grise. Bris- 
bus nigris basi albis. Lath. son av. v. 272. Tab. 24. 
Ind. orn.719.id. Syn.v.145. Sig. 2. Hist. @ois. vii. 507. 
Godwit, Yarwhelp, or Yar- Pl. Enl. 876. 
wip. Vil. orn. 290. Br. Zool. 120. Tab. B. Arct. 
Raii Syn. av. 105. Zool. ii. 169. - 
Tuts species weighs twelve ounces and a half; Descrir- 
the length is sixteen inches; the breadth twenty- 
seven. ‘The bill is four inches long, turns up a 
little, is black at the end, the rest a pale purple; 
from the bill to the eye is a broad white stroke; 
the feathers of the head, neck, and back, are 
of a light reddish brown, marked in the middle 
with a dusky spot; the belly and vent feathers 
are white; the tail regularly barred with black 
and white. ‘The six first quil feathers are black; 
their interior edges of a reddish brown; the legs 
in some are dusky, in others of a greyish blue; 
which perhaps may be owing to a difference of 
age; the exterior toe is connected as far as the 
first joint of the middle toe, with a strong ser- 
rated membrane. The male is distinguished from 
the female by some black lines on the breast and 
throat, which in the female are wanting*. 
* In the two specimens, male and female, in the late Leverian 
rouseum, one had a white, the other a pale rufous breast J. L. 
TION. 
