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 The Godwit, or TarweJph. iEgocephalus. 



Numb. LXX. 



TTS Weight was eleven Ounces and a half; Length, from the Point 

 •^ of the Bill to the End of the Claws, feventeen Inches and a half; 

 Breadth, when the Wings were extended, twenty eight Inches and a half; 

 the Feathers of the Head are of a redifh Colour, their middle Parts 

 being black,; above and below the Eyes of a pale yeliowiili Tindure; 

 the Neck, Throat, and Bread are redifh, with tranfverfe Lines of 

 black, edged with pale yellow, the Bill of a fordid white with faint tranf- 

 verfe Lines of a blackifh Colour: in the Hen the Throat and Neck are 

 grey ; the Rump is white, powderd with blackifh Specks. 



The great Feathers of the Wings are black with white Shafts; this 

 Bird had abroad Bar of white acrofs the middle of the firft, fecond, and 

 third Feathers, the reft of the firft Row and thofe of the fecond have redifli 

 afti-coloured Tips and Edges ; the leiTer covert Feathers of the Wings 

 are of like Colour with the Body ; the Tail Feathers are in Number 

 twelve, all croffed alternately with black and white Lines; the middle- 

 moft, which are the longeft, being three Inches and a quarter, the reft 

 on each Side in Order fomewhat fliorter, the exteriour than the interiour. 



The Bill is of a pale dilute redifti Colour at the Bafe, black at the 

 Point, longer for the Bignefs of the Bird than the Smpes or WoodcocK^ ; 

 the upper Mandible a little longer than the lower ; the Tongue fharp, 

 the JSoftrils oblong, the Ears great; the Legs are not very long, naked 

 to the middle of the fecond Joint ; the Claws black: the Claw of the 

 middle fore Toe is on the iniide thinned into an Edge ; the outer Toe 

 is joined to the middle one from the Rife to the firft Joint by a pretty 

 thick Membrane of a dusky or dark green Colour. 



It lives and feeks its Food on the fandy Shores by the Sea-ftde, which 

 for a great Space are uncovered when the Tide is out, where it walks 

 up and down on the Sands in open View like the Gull, 



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