Oafs II. RED GODWIT. 353 



but we difcover it in Samos, an ifland of Ionia, a. coun- 

 try celebrated by the antients for producing the fineft 

 kinds : 



Inter fapores fertur alitum primus 

 lonicarum guflus attagenarum t 



Is the opinion of Martial*^ and Horace -f, and Pliny ^ 

 both fpeak of it with applaufe. Tcumefort § has 

 given us the figure of the bird itfelf, which he found 

 in the marfhes of Samos, whofe painted and fpotted 

 plumage exactly anfwers the defcriptions of Arifto- 

 phanes and Athemeus. It is of the partridge genus, 

 and known to the Italians by the name of Francolino. 

 Thofe who wifh to fee it in its proper colors, and to be 

 fatisfied how well they agree with the defcriptions of 

 the antients, need only confult the 246th plate of the 

 works of our ingenious friend Mr. Edwards* 



III. The RED GODWIT. 



Sc'olopax Lapponlca* tin. fyjl. Taun. Suec.fp. 174. 

 246. Br. Zoo/, add. plates, 



f J V HE red .god wit Is fuperior in fize to the com- Ds 



■ mon kind : the bill is three inches threerOjuarters 

 long; not quite ftrait 3 but a little reflected upward? ; 

 the lower half black, the upper yellow : the head, 

 neck, br^aft, fides, fcapulars, and Upper put 



Oi UK* 



* £/•£•, lib. xlii. Ep, 61. 



•f Epod. ii. 



t '-lb. x c. 48. 



^ Voy. vpi, i. 31J. 4/0. ed. 



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