206 SNIPE. 



17— HUDSON I AN GOD WIT. 



Scolopax Hudsonica, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 720. 



Hudsonian Godwit, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 246. Arct. Zool. Sup. p. 68. 



LENGTH seventeen inches. Bill three inches long, turning 

 upwards, the base half pale, the rest black ; top of the head blackish, 

 spotted, or streaked dusky white ; sides of the head and neck behind 

 much the same; lore dusky; over the eyes a white streak; chin 

 nearly white; back and scapulars dusky brown, spotted with rufous 

 white ; one spot on each side of the shaft, and in the large feathers 

 two; wing coverts brown, with a pale mixture in some of the middle 

 ones, and a few white spots ; larger coverts plain ash-colour ; quills 

 black, with white shafts ; the base of all from the fourth white, to 

 about one-third of the length ; rump and upper tail coverts white ; 

 the under parts of the bird, from the throat to the vent, fine rufous 

 chestnut, waved across with narrow, dusky lines, each being so 

 marked at the tip ; tail feathers white at the base, taking up greater 

 space as the feathers are more outward ; the rest of the length dusky 

 black ; wings and tail equal in length ; legs long, black. 



I received this, with the Marbled one, from Hudson's Bay, by 

 favour of Mr. Hutchins ; but without any history, further than that 

 they were equally scarce birds. 



18— AMERICAN GODWIT. 



Scolopax Fedoa, Ind. Orn. ii. 718. Lin. i. 244. Gm. Lin. i. 663. 



Numidia Americana, Greater Godwit, Bartr. Trav. 292. 



Liinosa Americana rufa, Bris.v. 287. 7d.8vo.ii. 282. 



— t-. — Fedoa, Frankl, Narr. A pp. p. 689. 



Barge rouge de la Baie d'Hudson, Buf. vii. 507. 



American Godwit, Gen. Syn. v. 142. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 271. Edw. pi. 142. 



SIZE of our Godwit; length sixteen inches. Bill six inches 

 long, yellow, but towards the point black ; eyes placed far back in 



