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RED-BREASTED GODWIT. 
(Fedoa pectoralis.) 
Vb.J'usco Jerrugineoque varia, subtus rufa, crisso tectricibusque 
caudcB iriferioribus albis, rectricibus duabus intermediis sub- 
elongatis. 
Godwit varied with brown and rust-colour, beneath red, with the 
vent and under tail-coverts white, the two middle tail-feathers 
rather elongated. 
Limosa noveboracensis. Leach. Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 32. 
Limosa rufa, var. Temm. man, d'Orn. Ed. 2. ii. 669. 
Red-breasted Snipe. Mont. Orn. Diet. Sup. with Jig. Mont. 
Linn. Trans. p. 198. 
Temminck suspects that this bird, called the Red- 
breasted Snipe by Montagu, is merely a variety of 
the Red Godwit ; but as the last author is decidedly 
of opinion that it is perfectly distinct from that spe- 
cies, I shall give the description in his own words, 
remarking, however, that it is well ascertained to be 
different from the Red-breasted Snipe of the Arctic 
Zoology, which is the opposite sex of the Brown Snipe 
of the same work. 
" Its length (says Montagu) is fifteen inches : 
beak three inches long, slightly reflected, and of a 
dusky colour, except at the base of the under man- 
dible, which is pale ; the upper mandible longest, 
and almost the eighth of an inch : irides dusky : orbits 
white : crown of the head ferruginous, streaked with 
dusky : sides of the head, chin, and throat, fore part 
of the neck, breast, belly, and sides, bright bay, palest 
on the chin, and with a few solitary white feathers on 
the belly : round the vent and under tail-coverts, the 
