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IV. The LESSER GODWIT, 



La Barge. Belon av.zo^. Fedoa noflra fecunda, the ftona 

 The fecond fort of Godwit, the Plover. Raiifyn. a<v. 105. 



Totanus of Aldro'vand ; called Lim^a, la Barge. Brijfon a<u.V, 



at Venice, Vetola. Wil. orn. 262. 



293. Br. Zool. 120. 



R. Ray (for we are not acquainted with this 

 fpecies) defcribes it thus. Its weight is nine D e fc^ 

 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 j the head of a deep 

 alh-color, whitifh about the eye ; the back of a uni- 

 form brownnefs, not fpottedlike that of the preceding: 

 the rump encompaiTed with a white ring : the two 

 middle feathers of the tail black : the outmofl, efpe- 

 dally on the outfide web, white almoft to the tips ; 

 jn the reft the white part grew lefs and lefs to the mid- 

 fllemoft. 



Befides thefe, Mr. Willoughby- mentions a third 

 fpecies, called in Cornwal the Stone Curlew ; but def- 

 pribes it no farther than faying it has a fhorter and 

 tenderer bill than the preceding. 



V. The 



