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RED GOD WIT. 
(Fedoa rufa.) 
Fje. rostro longa, caudd alba Juscd transversim radiata, unguibus 
mediis brevis integris. 
Godwit with a long beak, the tail white, transversely striped 
with brown, the middle claws stout and entire. 
Scolopax Lapponica. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1, 246. Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2.718. 
Fedoa Americana, pectore rufo. Edw. Birds, pi. 138. 
Limosa rufa. Briss. Orn. 5. 281. pL 25. f. 1. Temm. man. 
d'Orn. 432. Id. 2. Edit. ii. 668. 
La Barge Rousse. Biif. Hist. Nat. Ois. 7. 504. Buff. PI. Enl. 
900. 
La Barge aboyeuse ou a queue rayee. Cuv. Reg. Jnim. 1. 488. 
Red Godwit. Bevo. Brit. Birds, 2. 80. 
Young. — Scolopax leucophea. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 719. 
Limosa grisea major. Briss. Orn. 5. 272.pl. 2\.f. 2. 
Common Godwit. Penn. Brit. Zool. 120. B. Lath. Gen. Syn. 
5. 144. Lath. Syn. Sujo. 1. 245, Mont. Orn. Diet. 1. Bew. 
Brit. Birds, 2. 78. 
Grey Godwit. Lexv. Brit. Birds, 4. pi. 161. Don. Brit. Birds, 
4. pi. 75. 
Distinguished from the black-tailed Godwit by 
the tail-feathers being transversely rayed with white 
and brown, the claw of the middle toe being entire, 
and by the length of its beak. The length is about 
thirteen inches and a half. In the summer the top 
of its head and the nape are fine red, longitudinally 
rayed with brown : the eyebrows, throat, sides of the 
neck, and all the under parts are bright red ; the 
sides of the breast, and the under tail-coverts being 
varied with longitudinal black streaks : the back, sea- 
