BRITISH BIRDS. 
85 
LESSER GODWIT. 
SECOND SORT OF GODWIT, OR JADREKA SNIPE. 
{^Scolopax limofa, Lin . — La Barge, BufF.) 
“ Length feventeen inches : weight nine ounces. 
Bill near four inches long, dufky, the bafe yellow- 
ifh : irides white : the head and neck are cinereous: 
cheeks and chin white : back, brown : on the wings, 
a line of white : vent and rump, white : two mid- 
dle tail feathers, blacky the others, white at the 
ends, which increafes on the outer feathers, fo as 
the exterior ones are white for nearly the whole 
length : legs, dufky. This inhabits Iceland, Green- 
land, and Sweden. Migrates in flocks in the fouth 
of RufTia. Seen about Lake Baikal : and is faid 
alfo to have been met with in England.’^ Latham. 
