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the head ; over the eye a white line ; from the bill to the eye a dusky 

 one ; throat white; the head and neck mottled with dusky and light 

 brown ; breast barred with black ; belly brown ; the back and wing 

 coverts varied rusty brown and dusky ; the quills ferruginous on the 

 outer webs; tail barred light brown and black; legs long, black, 

 naked high above the joint; the outer and middle toe united at the 

 bottom. — Inhabits Hudson's Bay, and there called a Curlew. 



A. — Length eighteen inches. Bill four inches, the base half 

 pale, the rest black ; head and neck streaked dusky and pale ; over 

 the eye a pale line ; between the bill and eye dusky ; back and wing 

 coverts waved and marbled pale rufous and brown ; all beneath, from 

 the breast, fine pale rufous, with a rose-coloured tinge ; under wing 

 coverts the same, plain, but darker; the greater quills dusky black 

 without, and rufous brown, speckled with black, within ; secondaries 

 waved in bars like the back, and nearly as long as the prime quills; 

 tail much like the back, but two or three of the outer feathers are 

 more rufous, with the addition of some perpendicular streaks on the 

 outer webs ; wings and tail equal in length ; the under tail coverts 

 crossed with a few dusky lines ; legs black ; the thighs bare high up 

 above the joint. 



A specimen sent to Mr. Francillon, from Mr. Abbot : it is found 

 in Georgia, frequenting the higher ground of the swamps, and sides 

 of thickets, having brooks and intersecting ditches ; but it is less 

 common than the Little Woodcock. 



19 —RED GODWIT. 



Scolopax Lapponica, Ind. Orn. ii. 718. Lin. i. 246. Fn. suec. No. 174. Gm. Lin. i. 



667. Brun. No. 165. Muller, No. 186. Phil. Trans. V. lxii. 411. 

 Numenius pectore rufo, Great Red-breasted Godwit, Bartr. Tr. 291. 



