218 SNIPE. 



beneath, are fine rufous; forehead and chin nearly white, marked on 

 the former, and about the nostrils, with brown dots ; wing coverts 

 brown, margined with dusky white, appearing in streaks; second 

 quills much the same; greater quills dusky black, with white shafts, 

 the first longest; tail two inches and a half long, even at the end, 

 dusky white, crossed with seven or eight brown bars, the end dusky 

 white; the wings, when closed, reach about one inch beyond it; 

 sides of the breast, just over the beginning of the wing, marked with 

 a few brown streaks; lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts white, with here and there an irregular spot of brown ; legs 

 black ; the outer and middle toe united at the base. 



A specimen of the above is in the collection of Lord Stanley, which 

 was met with in England, in the year 1812. On comparing this with 

 the PI. enlum, 900 or Barge ronsse, it seems so nearly to correspond 

 as to incline one to think it one and the same bird, and the length is 

 also the same. Hence we may infer, that as the one quoted in Brisson, 

 as well as the Barge rousse of BufTbn, who refers to the above 

 plate in the Planches enlum, has the tail barred, and not half 

 black half white, the bird last described is either distinct as to 

 species, or a peculiar Variety of the Red Godwit. 



29— WHITE GODWIT. 



Recurvirostra alba, Ind. Orn. ii. 787. Gin. Lin. i. G94. 



Scolopax alba, Lin. i. 247. 



Limosa Candida, Bris. v. 290. Id. 8vo. in 283. 



La Barge blanche, Buf. vii. 508. 



White Godwit, Edw. pi. 139. 



White Avoset, Gen. Syn. v. 296. Arct. Zool. ii. 502. 



SIZE of the Red Godwit ; length fourteen inches and a quarter. 

 Bill more than three inches in length, turning greatly upwards as in 

 the Common Avoset, colour orange ; growing black towards the 

 point ; general colour of the plumage white, except the under wing 



