RED-BREASTED GODWIT. 
To those unversed in the study of Natural 
History, it may appear strange, to give this 
bird it's trivial name from the redness of it's 
colour, when it in truth so little approaches to 
red: hut the adept well knows, that these cha- 
racteristic traits are founded on nice compara- 
tive semblances and dissimilitudes. 
