RED-BREASTED GODWIT. 
middle toe one inch and a half. It seems to 
be full as big, or rather bigger than a Wood- 
cock. The bill is long, and straight ; the nos- 
trils are placed pretty near the head : the point 
of the bill is black ; then, becoming dusky, 
the better half next the head is yellow. From 
the bill, on each side, passes a dusky mixed 
line through each eye, and a whitish line above 
each eye. The sides of the head and throat 
are white, with some faint dusky spots. The 
top of the head ; the neck all round in it's up- 
per part, but in it's lower only behind ; and 
the back ; are covered with dark brown fea- 
thers, variegated with black dusky lines. The 
rump is white ; the tail of a blackish brown, 
the feathers being tipped with whitish ash- 
colour. The prime quills of the wings are 
blackish brown, with white shafts; there is, 
also, a little whiteness on the edges of their 
webs, near their bottoms : the other quills, 
that fall toward the back, are of a reddish 
brown, and a black, interchangeably pecti- 
nated into each other on their webs. The 
covert-feathers immediately above the quills are 
brown, having white tips : the lesser coverts, 
on the outsides of the wing, are light brown; 
the 
