SNIPE. 205 



bands. — This is said to be one of the rarest of the Javan birds, 

 having been only once found near a mountain lake, at an elevation 

 of about 7000 feet above the ocean. 



16— MARBLED GODWIT. 



Scolopax marmorata, Ind. Om. ii. 720. 



' Fedoa, Great Marbled Godwit, Amer. Orn. vii. p. 20. pi. 50. f. 4. — female. 



Barge, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. civ. 



Marbled Godwit, Gen. Syn. Sup. 245. Arct. Zool. Sup. p. 68. 



LENGTH nineteen inches. Bill almost four, colour dull orange, 

 towards the end black; all the upper parts of the plumage brown, 

 more or less streaked and spotted with rufous white ; between the 

 bill and eye, and chin white ; on the back the marks are pale rufous, 

 and pretty numerous, arising from each feather having five or six 

 bars of that colour on the margin ; wing coverts with less brown, 

 appearing at a distance scarcely marked with it; quills rufous cream- 

 colour, minutely speckled with brown ; the four first have the outer 

 webs and ends dusky black, the shaft of the outer one white ; under 

 wing coverts pale rufous ; breast and sides the same, but much paler ; 

 barred with dusky, waved, lines, broadest on the sides; middle of 

 the belly and thighs plain ; vent nearly white ; tail rufous, crossed 

 with six or seven brown bars, on the outer ones quite irregular, the 

 two middle palest ; legs black, and bare for one inch and a quarter 

 above the joint. The male and female much alike, except that in 

 the former the breast is marked with undulating bars of black. 



Inhabits Hudson's Bay; occasionally appearing in other parts in 

 the passage, to and from the places where they breed. 



