AMERICAN GODWIT. 
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are mediocral, and their first quill is the longest. Their 
long and flexible beak is well calculated for procuring 
their food, which consists of worms, in the soft mud, 
and being exquisitely furnished with nerves, is very 
sensitive. They are a timid and solitary tribe, fre- 
quenting damp meadows, soft marshes, and the muddy 
banks of rivers : they seldom, however, remain above 
a day or two in the same place, but remove in flocks 
during the night, flying very high. They are mi- 
gratory ; and moult twice in the year. Their flesh is 
excellent. Their cry resembles that of a goat. 
AMERICAN GODWIT. 
(Fedoa Americana.) 
Fe. rufa nigro varia, subtus alba, remigibus secondariis rvfis 
nigro punctatis, pedibus Jiiscis. 
Red Godwit varied with blacky beneath white, the secondary 
quills rufous, spotted with black, the legs brown. 
Scolopax Fedoa. Z,?h. Si/st. Nat. 1. 244. Grnel. Si/sL Nat. 1. 
663. Lath. Ind. Orn. 718. 
Limosa Americana rufa. Briss. Orn. 5. 287. 
Limosa Fedoa. Sabine. Frank. Journ. App. 689. 
Fedoa Americana. Edw. Birds, pi. 137. 
Barge rouge de la bale d'Hudson. Buff. Ois. 7. 507. 
American Godwit, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 371. Lath. Gen. Syn. 
5. 142. 
Great Marbled Godwit. Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vii, p. 30. pi. Ivi. 
/•4. 
The male of this bird is nineteen inches long, and 
thirty-four inches in extent : the beak is nearly six 
