120 
BIRDS. 
[Clafs II. 
SPECIES II. The Godwit. Plate Jg, 
Godwit, yarwhelp, or yarwip. Wit. 
orn. 290. 
H I S fpecies weighs twelve ounces and 
a half j the length is fixteen inches $ 
the breadth twenty-feven; the bill is 
four inches long, black at the end, the reft a pale 
purple ; from the bill to the eye is a broad white 
ftroke ; the feathers of the head, neck and back, 
are of a licrht reddifh brown, marked in the mid- 
die with a dufky fpot: the belly and vent feathers 
white : the tail regularly barred with black and 
white : the fix firft quil feathers are black 5 their 
interior edges of a reddifh brown : the legs in 
feme are dulky, in others of a greyifh blue j 
Rail fyn. av. 105. 
Scolopax segocephala. Lin. fyft. 147. 
which perhaps may be owing to different ages j 
the exterior toe is conne&ed as far as the firft 
joint of the middle toe, with a ftrong ferrated 
membrane. The male is diftinguifhed from the 
female by fome black lines on the breaft and 
throat j which in the female are wanting. 
T Thefe birds appear in fmall flocks on our coafts 
in September , and continue with us the whole 
winter , they walk on the open fands like, the 
curlew j and feed on infedfs. 
The leffer Godwit. 
SPECIES III. 
The fecond fort of godwit, the 
Totanus of Aldrovand ; called at 
Venice , Vetola. PVil. orn. 293, 
Fedoa noftra fecunda, the ftone 
Plover, Raiifyn. av. 105. 
Limofa, Briffon av. V. 262. 
M R. Ray (for we are not acquainted 
with this fpecies) defcribes it thus, 
Its weight is nine ounces ; the length 
to the tail feventeen inches $ to the toes twenty- 
one \ its breadth twenty-eight: the bill like that 
of the former : the chin white, tinged with red i 
the neck afh-colored ; the head of a deep afti- 
color, whitifh about the eye; the back of a 
uniform brownefs, not fpotted like that of the 
preceding : the rump encompafled with a white 
ring : the two middle feathers of the tail black : 
the outmoft, efpecially on the outfide web, white 
almoft to the tips y in the reft the white part was 
lefs and lefs to the middlemoft. 
Befides thefe, Mr. Willoughby mentions a third 
fpecies, called in Cormsoal the Stone Curlew y but 
defcribes it no farther than faying it has a fhorter 
and flenderer bill than the preceding. 
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