Crass Il. RED GODWIT SNIPE. 
«« The cinereous godwit is represented in Jn- 
dian drawings.” J. L. } 
Scolopax lapponica. Sc. rostro La Barge rousse. Hist. dois. 
flavescente, pedibus nigris, vil. 504. Pl. Enl. 900. 
subtus tota rufo ferruginea. Edwards. tab. 138. 
Lath. Ind. orn.718.id. Syn. Faun. Suec. sp. 174. 
v. 142. Gm. Lin. 667. Br. Zool. add. plates.. 
Limosa rufa. Brisson av. v. Arct. Zool. ii. 168. 
981. tab. 25. f. 1. 
THE ted godwit is superior in size to the 
common kind; the bill is three inches three- 
quarters long, not quite strait, but a little re- 
flected upwards ; the lower half black, the up- 
per yellow ; the head, neck, breast, sides, sca- 
pulars, and upper part of the back, are of a 
bright ferruginous color ; the head marked with 
oblong dusky lines; the neck is plain ; the breast, 
sides, scapulars, and back varied with trans- 
verse black bars, and the edges of the feathers 
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4. RED. 
Dezscrir- 
TION: 
with a pale cinereous brown; the middle of the : 
belly is white, marked sparingly with similar spots. 
The lesser coverts of the wings are of a light 
brown ; the greater tipt with white; the shafts 
and lower interior webs of the greater quil 
feathers are white ; the exterior webs and upper 
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