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cave, but when spread out the feathers seem even ; the legs are long, 

 above the joint bare for one inch and three quarters ; length of the 

 shins three inches and a half; colour brownish black, the outer and 

 middle toes joined at the base by a membrane; the middle claw 

 with two or three serratures, not unlike that of the Goatsucker. 

 This was a female, having a cluster of eggs, and two larger than 

 the rest very conspicuous. 



We are enabled to give the above description from a fine specimen 

 killed by Mr. Boys, in April 1817; and have been more minute, as 

 we believe it to be a bird not generally met with. 



Inhabits Iceland, Greenland, and Sweden. Migrates in flocks in 

 the south of Russia; seen about Lake Baikal; is now and then found 

 in England. One in the collection of Mr. Folijambe was bought 

 in Leadenhall Market, In the collection of Mr. Bullock were two 

 others, but whether British specimens was uncertain : it is supposed 

 to be the Red Godwit in one of its changes of plumage. Found in 

 Java by Dr. Horsfield, and there called Biru-lahut. 



21— FERRUGINOUS GODWIT. 



LENGTH fourteen inches. Bill three inches long, brown ; 

 head and neck dusky aud white mixed in streaks ; back brown, 

 spotted with buflf white ; the feathers having three spots on each 

 web ; lesser wing coverts brown, the greater marked with a few buff 

 spots; inner coverts, over the quills, with white ends, but not visible 

 when the wing is closed ; quills brown, several of the inner ones 

 white at the base, shafts white ; upper tail coverts white; tail black, 

 three inches long, the side feathers white at the base, most so on the 

 exterior one ; ends fringed with white ; under wing coverts brown 

 and white mixed ; the chin and sides of the head are dusky and 

 white, mixed in streaks ; the throat and neck before streaked, dusky 

 and pale ferruginous ; breast, belly, and vent, deep ferruginous, the 



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