354 RED GOD WIT. Clais II, 



back, are of a bright ferruginous color: the head 

 marked with oblong dufky lines : the neck is plain s 

 the breaft, fides, fcapulars, and back varied with 

 tranfverfe black bars ? and the edges of the feathers 

 with a pale cinereous brown : the middle of the belly 

 is white, marked fparingly with fimilar fpots : the 

 leffer coverts of the wings are of a light brown : the 

 greater tipt with white : the ihafts and lower interior 

 webs of the greater quil-feathers are white : the ex- 

 terior webs and upper part of the interior black : the 

 ppper half of the fecondary feathers are of the fame 

 color; the lower half white: the coverts, and the 

 lower part of the feathers of the tail are white ; the 

 iipper part black ; the white gradually leflening from 

 the outmoft feathers on each fide : the legs are black, 

 and four inches long : and the thighs above the knees, 

 are naked for the fpace of an inch and three? 

 quarters. 



Thefe birds vary in their colors, fome that we have 

 feen being very flightly marked with red, or only 

 marbled with it on the breaft : but the reflected form 

 of the bill is ever fufficient to determine the fpecies. 

 This is not a very common fpecies in England \ we 

 have known it to have been fhot near Hull; and have 

 once met with it in a poulterer's mop in London. Mr. 

 Edwards has figured a bird from Hud/on's Bay, that 

 feems related to this ; but the difference in the colors 

 of the tail, forbids our placing it among the fyno- 

 nyms. And Linnaus omitting a defcription of that 

 part, in his Fauna Suecica obliges us to queftioi} 

 whether it be the fame with the above, 



IV. Thg 



