444 LESSER GODWIT. Class II. 



182. Lesser. La Barge. Belon an>. 205. Fedoanoftrafecunda, the Stone 

 The fecond fort of God wit, Plover Rail fyn. a>v. 105. 



the Tot anus of Aldrcvand ; Limcfa, la Barge. BriJ/on a<v. 

 called at Venice, Veiola. V. 262. 



Wil. orn. 293. Br. Z00L 120. 



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R. Ray (for we are not acquainted with 

 Descrip. xYJL this fpecies) defcribes it thus. Its weight is 

 nine ounces ; the length to the tail feventeen inches ; 

 to the toes twenty-one ; its breadth twenty-eight : 

 the bill like that of the former: the chin white, 

 tinged with red : the neck afh-colored ; the head of 

 a deep afh-color, whitifh about the eye; the back 

 of a uniform brownnefs, not fpotted like that of 

 the preceding : the rump encompaifed with a white 

 ring : the two middle feathers of the tail black : 

 the outmoft, efpecially on the outfide web, white 

 almoft to the tips •, in the reft the white part grew 

 lefs and lefs to the middlemoft. 



Befides thefe, Mr. Willughby mentions a third 

 fpecies, called in Cornwal the Stone Curlew \ but 

 defcribes it no farther than faying it has a fhorter 

 and flenderer bill than the preceding. 



Limofa; 



