BRITISH BIRDS. 
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on the breaft and fides barred or marbled with 
dufky, cinereous, and white ; the neck plain dull 
rufly red. The back, fcapulars, greater and lefler 
coverts, are afh-coloured brown ; on the former 
two, fome of the feathers are barred and ftreaked 
with black and ruft colour, and edged with pale 
‘ reddilh white. The rump is white ; the middle of 
the belly, and the vent, the fame, (lightly fpotted 
with brown : a bar of white is formed acrofs each 
wing by the tips of the greater coverts. The ex- 
terior webs, and tips of the primary quills, are of 
a dark brown colour, and the interior webs are 
white towards their bafe. In fome fpecimens the 
tail is barred with black, or dark brown, upon a 
pale rufous ground ; in others it is plain dark 
brown, with light tips and edges. The legs are 
dufky, and bare a long fpace above the knees. 
Mr Pennant, in his Ardic Zoology, fays, thefe 
birds are found in the north of Europe, and about 
the Cafpian Sea, but never in Siberia, or any part 
of Northern Afia.” According to Latham, they 
are plentiful in the fens about Hudfon’s Bay, in 
America. They are not very common in Great 
Britain. ' It is praifed by thofe who have eaten it 
as a very well tailed and delicious bird. 
There is reafon to fuppofe that BuIFon has de- 
fcribed the male and female Red Godwits as two 
dillin6l fpecies. In his Planches Enluminees, the 
Barge Rouffe is the female, and the Grande Barge 
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