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will be content to take the pains to cut it up, may obferve. It is efteemed a delicate 

 bird by the French, but feldom appears in places far remote from the Sea, feeking its 

 food moft willingly in fait Marines. A good part of Marlh-birds are no&urna], as 

 this alfo is, intent upon feeding by night rather than by day. Wherefore we {hall 

 receive it for the Mgocephalus,u\\ fome other more fit name be found out for it. Thus 

 far Bellonius. 



I take this bird of BeUonius to be the fame with our Godwit, which in Cambridge- 

 Jloire and the Ifle of Ely they call Yarwhety. 



§. ii. 



The fecond fort of Godwit , which feems to be the fome with the Totanus 



of* Aldrovand, called at Venice, Vetola. *Tom. ?> 



pag-43®. 



IT weighs above nine ounces : Its length from Bill to Tail is full feventeen inches 5 to 

 the feet twenty one : Its breadth from Wings-end to Wings-end twenty eight. 



Its Bill is like a Woodcock?, three inches three quarters long, black at the end, elfe 

 reddifh : Its Legs long, and bare above the Knees : The outmoft Toe joyned to the 

 middle by a membrane as far as the firft joynt: The middle Claw excavated on the 

 inner fide. 



The Chin is white, with a tin&ure of red : The Neck * cinereous : The Breaft and * Aft-colou- 

 Belly white: The Head of a dusky afh-colour, whitifh about the Eyes: The Back red ' or gre ^ 

 brown : The Rump encompaffed with a white ring, as in the Pygargu*. 



The quil- feathers in each Wing were twenty fix : The firft or outmoft the longeft, 

 all black, as were alfo the dx next. The reft to the nineteenth were half white .• In 

 the twentieth and twenty firft the outer edges were alfo white. The tips of the fea- 

 thers of the fecond row were white, and together made a white line crofting the mid- 

 dle of the Wing. Its Tail was three inches long, made up of twelve feathers. The 

 two middlemoft of which were almoft wholly black : The outmoft, efpecially on the 

 outfide Web, white almoft up to the tips : In the reft in order the white part was lets 

 and lefs to the middlemoft. 



This bird hath thick blind-guts, J. of an inch long,and befides that fingle one about 

 the middle of the guts. It differs from the precedent, 1. In the colour of the Tail : 

 2. In the colour of the Back and upper fide, which in that is various, in this one and 

 tr^e fame: 3. Inbignefs, being lefs than that. 



§. III. 



The third fort of Godwit. 



BEfides the two already defcribed Mr. Willughby acknowledges a third fort of 

 Godwit, which in Cornwall they call the * Stone-Curlew, differing from the pre- * others call 

 cedent m that it hath a much thorter and flenderer Bill than either of them. ^oedkne- 



miaoiBeUonh 

 /«the Stont 

 Curlew?*. 



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