208 SNIPE. 



Red Godwit, Gen. Syn. v. 142. Br. Zool. ii. No. 181. pi. 67. Id.fol. add. Plates. 

 Id. Ed. 1812. ii. p. 51. pi. 12. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 372. Edw. pi. 138. Bewick, 

 ii. pi. p. 80. Lewin, iv. pi. 160. Walcot, ii. pi. 140. Pult. Dors. p. 14. Orn. 

 Diet. Lin. Trans, i. p. 128. 



LENGTH thirteen inches ; weight twelve ounces. Bill three 

 inches and three quarters long, rather inclining- upwards ; colour 

 dusky, next the head yellowish ; head, neck, breast, and upper part 

 of the back, ferruginous, streaked with black ; neck plain ; over the 

 eyes a paler streak ; lower part of the back and rump rufous white, 

 the feathers dusky down the shafts; upper tail coverts barred rufous, 

 white, and brown ; lesser wing coverts brown, fringed with white, 

 forming a bar on the wing; greater quills black on the outer webs, 

 white towards the base within ; secondaries half white half black ; 

 the two middle tail feathers dusky black, the others white halfway 

 from the base, the rest black; legs black. 



This is rare in England, but a few instances of its being met with 

 are on record ; One in Dorsetshire, in the Museum of the late Mr. 

 Tunstall ; another in Sussex, mentioned by Mr. Markwick;* a third 

 in Cornwall ;t and a fourth shot near Hull. % I learn, too, from 

 Dr. Lamb, that one was shot near INewbury, in the year 1810. 

 Mr. Pennant once met with it in a poulterer's shop in London. 



On the Continent it appears north, as far as Sweden, and probably 

 Lapland ;§ seen about the Caspian Sea in spring, never in Siberia, 

 or north of Asia ;|| is more plentiful in America ; found in numbers 

 in the fens about Hudson's Bay, where they breed, and retire south- 

 ward in autumn ; is called there Pusquatishishue. 



* Lin. Trans, iv. p. 21. A flock appeared some years since on the coasts of Sussex, of 

 which ten were killed by two persons, but not seen since that period. 



t Pult. Dors. % Br. Zool. § Linnwus. || Arct. Zool. 



