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COMMON GODWIT. 
out of Europe, parts of Continental India and the 
East India Islands, are its best authenticated lo- 
calities. These are given on the authority of Tem- 
niinck. 
This bird, with the exception of the longer legs 
and variegated tail, much resembles the last. In sum- 
mer, the whole head and neck, breast, and all the 
lower parts, are of a subdued orange-red of uniform 
tint. The centre of the feathers on the crown, lower 
parts of the back of the neck, being broadly marked 
along the centres with blackish-brown, which ex- 
tends upon the sides of the breast in narrow streaks. 
The lower eyelid is white. Above, the ground 
colour is rich purplish blackish- brown, the feathers 
deeply cut into with ochraceous and pale reddish- 
orange ; on the shoulders and wing-coverts the tint 
approaches more to clove-brown, each feather edged 
with white, and these are generally intermixed with 
feathers of a darker colour, cut into with red ; but 
we do not find in that part that the whole plu- 
mage assumes the summer tints. The rump and tail- 
coverts in this state are white, tinted with rufous, and 
have the centre of the feathers dark, the tail-coverts 
often become entirely rufous, barred with blackish- 
brown ; the quills are deep blackish-brown at the 
tips and along the outer webs, shading into white 
on the edge of the inner, and becoming there mot- 
tled with hair-brown. The tail is greyish- white, 
tinted with rufous, the tip of each feather white, 
the shafts of very deep clove- brown, with irregular 
but decided bars crossing each feather of the same 
