210 SNIPE. 



Fedoa nostra secunda, Rati, 105. A. 5. Will. 216. 



Limosa melanura, Tern. Man. 429. Id. Ed. ii. 665. Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 193. 



Die Pfuhlschnepfe, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 116. 



Limosa melanura, Black-tailed Godwit, Frankl. Narr. App. p. 689. 



Der gemeine Pfuhlschnepfe, Naturf. xiii. 114. 



La Barge, Buf. vii. 500. pi. 27. PI. enh 874. 



La grande Barge rousse, Buf. vii. 505. PI. e'nl. 916. 



Lesser Godwit, Br. Zoo/, ii. No. 1S2. Id.fol. 120. 



Jadreka Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 146. Br.Zool. 1812. ii. p. 53. ^-cf. Zoo/, ii. No. 374. 



Olafs. hi. ii. 201. pi. 48. Lewin, iv. pi, 162. Bewick, ii. p. 85. Orn. Diet. 



Sf Supp. pi. in ditto. 



THE length of this species is seventeen inches and a half; 

 breadth two feet four inches ; weight eight ounces and three quarters. 

 Bill four inches and a quarter long, brownish yellow, nearly straight, 

 or in a slight degree inclining upwards, the end for one inch and a 

 half dusky black, the upper mandible hanging over the lower; top 

 and sides of the head cinereous brown, with darker mottlings ; over 

 the eye, and behind it, a pale streak ; chin pale ; neck pale rufous, 

 and pale ash-colour; breast ash-colour, the feathers crossed near the 

 ends with pale rufous, bounded with black ; from thence the under 

 parts are white ; back, wing coverts, and four of the second quills 

 next the body, ash-colour; the following one white within, halfway 

 from the base ; the three next with the outer webs wholly white ; the 

 rest divided half way from the base, white, afterwards blackish ; 

 the black occupying most space in those nearest the body ; greater 

 quills much the same, and the four outer have the whole of outer 

 webs black, the inner white half way from the base; bastard wing 

 dusky black ; the secondaries reach to within one inch and a half 

 of the end of the quills when the wing is closed ; the back is like the 

 wings, and the rump approaches to black ; the upper tail coverts are 

 white, but the lower series of them tipped with black ; the tail has 

 twelve feathers, the two middle ones black, the others white a consider- 

 able way from the base ; the rest of the length black ; the white occu- 

 pying most space on the outer ones, and on the exterior reaching almost 

 to the tip; the shape of the tail appears, when closed, a little con- 



