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78' BRITISH BIRDS. 
GODWIT. 
COMMON GODWIT, GODWYN, YARWHELP, OR YARWIP, 
{Scolopax (sgocephala, La grande Barge gr if BufF.) 
The weight of this bird is about twelve ounces ; 
length about fixteen inches : the bill is four inches 
long, and bent a little upwards, black at the point, 
gradually foftening into a pale purple towards the 
bafe ; a whitifli ftreak palfes from the bill over each 
eye : the head, neck, back, fcapulars, and coverts, 
are of a dingy reddiih pale brown, each feather 
marked down the middle with a dark fpot. The 
fore part of the breafl is flreaked with black ; the 
belly, vent, and tail are white, the latter regularly 
barred with black ; the webs of the firlt fix quill 
feathers are black, edged on the interior fides Vvith 
