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ORD. I. GEN. V. SNIPE. 



SPE. VI. GREY GODWIT. 



PI. 162. 



Scolopax jegocephala. Lin. Syji. I. p. 246. 

 La grande Barge grife. Brif.Orn. V. p. 272. 



This fpecies weighs twelve ounces, and is fixteen inches in length. The 

 bill is in fome three, in others four inches long, black at the end, the reft a 

 pale purple, and turning upward a little like that of the preceding: the head 

 and back are mottled brown and white : the chin, and round the eye, white : 

 between the bill and eye, dufky : before, as far as the belly, pale reddifh 

 brown: belly, and vent, white: quills, dufky, mottled or edged with white : 

 fecondaries, brown, edged with white : rump, white : tail coverts, white, fpar- 

 ingly fpotted with dufky : tail, barred dufky and white: legs pale lead colour, 

 or black. 



The grey godwit is not uncommon in England in the winter j and it is alfo 

 met with at the fame time with the ruffs, being taken promifcuoufly with them. 

 It feeds on infers, and minute fhells 5 and remains throughout the year. 



