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II. The G O D W I T. 



Godwit, Yarwhelp, or Yarwip. Limofa grifea major. 



Wil. orn. 290. La grande Barge grife. BrtJJon av» 

 Raiijyn, a<v. 105. v. 272. tab. 24.. fig. 2. 



Scolopax aegocephala. Lin.JyJl. Br. Zoo/. 120. tab. 



246. 



^"r^HIS fpecies weighs twelve ounces and a half; Defer. 



•*• the length is fixteen inches ; the breadth twenty - 

 feven ; the bill is four inches long, black at the end, 

 the reft a pale purple : from the bill to the eye is a 

 broad white ftroke : the feathers of the head, neck, 

 and back, are of a light reddim brown, marked in 

 the middle with a dufky fpot : the belly and vent 

 feathers white : the tail regularly barred with black 

 and white : the fix firft quil-feathers are black ; their 

 interior edges of a reddim brown : the legs in fome 

 are dufky, in others of a greyifh blue ; which perhaps 

 may be owing to different ages: the exterior toe is 

 connected as far as the firft joint of the middle toe, 

 with a ftrong fer rated membrane. The male is dif- 

 tinguifhed from the female by fome black lines on 

 the breaft and throat; which in the female are 

 wanting. 



Thefe birds are taken in the fens, in the fame fea- 

 fon, and in the fame manner with the ruffs and reeves, 

 and when fattened are efteemed a great delicacy, and 

 fell for five (hillings a piece : they appear in fmall 

 flocks on our coaft in September, and continue with 

 us the whole winter ; they walk on the open lands 

 Jike the curlew ; and feed on infects,. 



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