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80 RED-BREASTED GODWIT. 
feathers are white, tipped with bay, showing part of 
the white : upper part of the neck behind ferruginous, 
slightly marked down the shafts with dusky : lower 
part of the hind-neck, upper part of the back, and 
scapulars dusky, spotted with ferruginous on the 
margin of the feathers : lower part of the back and 
rump white, with oblong dusky spots down the shafts : 
upper tail-coverts barred dusky and ferruginous, be- 
coming white at the base of the feathers : prime quills 
dusky black, the six first mottled with brown and 
white on the inner webs towards the base ; the se- 
condaries cinereous, margined and spotted with white: 
the shafts of all more or less white : greater coverts 
of the prime quills black ; from the fifth tipped with 
white : those of the secondaries cinereous, the inner 
webs spotted with white : lesser coverts a mixture of 
dusky, cinereous, and white, dashed with ferruginous, 
with a few feathers near the quills spotted ferruginous 
like the back : under wing-coverts white, elegantly 
barred, and spotted with black : tail nearly even at 
the end, the two middle feathers the largest, the 
whole marked with eight or nine alternate bars of 
black and white quite to the base, forming, when the 
tail is spread, so many concentric semicircular bands : 
legs dusky black.'* 
This species has been taken occasionally in Eng- 
land, in the counties of Devon and Cornwall. 
