442 RED G O D W I T. Class. II. 



180. Cine- / | \HIS fpecies was fhot near Spalding, and 

 jl^ the defcription communicated to me by the 

 Rev. Doctor Buckwortb. 



The biU was two inches and a half Ions;. The 

 head, neck, and back variegated with auVcolor and 

 white : the tail flightly barred with cinereous. 

 The throat and bread white : the laft marked 

 with a few afh-colored fpots. The legs long, 

 ilender, and afh-colored. 



This was about the fize of my Green Jkanks: ap- 

 proaches it nearly in colors : but the bill was fo 

 much thicker, as to form a fpecific diftinction. 



1S1. Red. Scolopax Lappcnica. Lin.fyft. Faun. 8ttec.jp. 174. 

 24-6. Br. Zool. add. plates. 



Dsscrip. / a ^ HE red godwit is fuperior in fize to the 

 1 common kind : the bill is three inches three- 

 quarters long ; not quite ftrait, but a little reflected 

 upwards -, the lower half black, the upper yellow: 

 the head, neck, breaft, fides, fcapulars, and up- 

 per part of the back, are of a bright ferrugi- 

 nous color : the head marked with oblong dufky 

 lines : the neck is plain : the breaft, fides, fcapu- 

 lars, and back varied with tranfverfe black bars, 



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