snipe. 23.9 



51 —CAMBRIDGE GODWIT. 



Scolopax Cantabrigiensis, Ind. Orn. ft. 271. Gm. Lin. i. GG8. 



Cambridge Godwit, Gen. Syn. v. 146. Br. Zool. ii. No. 185. Id. 1812. ii. p. 58. A. 

 Lewin, pi. 162. Bewick, ii. p. 81. Orn. 2)icf. 



LARGER than the Common Redshank. Head and upper 

 parts of the neck and back cinereous brown ; lesser wing coverts 

 brown, edged with dull white, and barred with black ; primaries 

 dusky, whitish on their inner sides ; secondaries barred dusky and 

 white; under side of the neck and breast dirty white; belly and 

 vent white ; tail barred cinereous and black ; legs orange. 



This was shot near Cambridge, described from the collection of 

 the Rev. Mr. Green, but the season of the year in which it was 

 taken, not mentioned. Mr. Pennant supposes this to be a Variety 

 of the Redshank, if not in imperfect plumage. Colonel Montagu 

 rather supposes it to be the Dusky Snipe, as he shot such an one in 

 the winter season ; and M. Temminck is of the same opinion. 



52— SPOTTED SNIPE. 



Scolopax Totanus, Lid. Orn. ii. 721. Lin. i. 245. 12 ? Brun. No. 157 ? Fn. arag. 



77. Mnller, 1S7 ? Georgi, 171 ? Fn. Helu. Grnel. Lin. i. 665. Borowsk. iii. 



91. Tern. Man. 413. 

 Totanus alter, Raii, 106. Will. 221. Id. Engl. 299. §. II. 

 Glaveola, Klein, 102 ? 



Die Strandschnepfe, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 125. 

 Barker, Albin, ii. pi. 71. 



Spotted Redshank, Br. Zool. ii. No. 186. Id. 1812. ii. p. 59. 

 Spotted Snipe, Gen. Syn. v. 148. Bewick, ii. pi. in p. 88. Lewin, iv. pi. 162. Om. 



Diet, fy Supp. 



SIZE of theGreenshank. Head pale ash-colour, streaked with 

 black ; back dusky, marked with triangular white spots ; wing 

 coverts ash-colour, spotted in the same manner; quills dusky; breast, 



